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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 278

George Bellows "The Last Victim" Lithograph

Estimate: $1,200 - $2,200
Starting Bid
$1,000

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Signed lower right and numbered lower left. 

Limited Edition: No. 21

 

Image: 19 1/4" Tall x 24" Wide 

Frame: 34" Tall x 43 1/2" Wide 

 

Condition: The image is in good condition. Wear and scuffs to the frame. 

 

Artist Bio: George Bellows (1882-1925) left Columbus, Ohio, for New York in 1904 to study under Robert Henri, and within a few years he was one of the most forceful painters of the city's working life. His tenement streets, Hudson River docks and smoky prizefight clubs, "Stag at Sharkey's" above all, made him at twenty six one of the youngest artists ever elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, and they tied his name to the Ashcan School.

Bellows took up lithography in 1916, and over the next nine years he made close to two hundred prints that remain among the strongest American work in the medium. The War Series of 1918 is the darkest of them. Working from the Bryce Report, the British government's account of German atrocities during the 1914 invasion of Belgium, he set aside the sporting crowd for scenes of execution, grief and violence against civilians, in lithographs and paintings alike. "The Last Victim" belongs to that series and follows Bellows' own caption: soldiers in a Belgian farmhouse after the killing of a family.

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