32. John Sloan
(1871-1951)

Fifth Avenue Critics

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Sloan, Fifth Avenue Critics

Fifth Avenue Critics

Etching, 1905, 124 x 175 mm., Morse 128 xi/xi. Fine impression on laid paper with good margins, as published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts in October, 1909, with the letterpress title Une Rue à New York. Apart from the letterpress, there was no change in the work from the tenth state, which was Sloan’s pencil signed, published edition and, when the letterpress was removed, which it was later, impressions were indistinguishable from those of the previous state. It was the Gazette’s avowed purpose to make fine original prints available to less wealthy collectors and this edition quite probably introduced the work of John Sloan to the French public. The impressions were printed, from the original plate, by the printer Porcabeuf in Paris.