Three AM: A Corner by Madison Square at Night -1920

C.R.W Nevinson (1889-1946), Three AM: A Corner by Madison Square at Night -1920, Drypoint.

Edition 75. Signed in pencil. Black 72.

Image size 9 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches (252 x 175 mm); sheet size 15 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (384 x 257 mm).

A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on cream laid paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/8 to 2 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Although the edition specifies 75 prints we have encountered very few impressions on the market.

Provenance: Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the deaccession stamp verso (Lugt 1943).

Literature: C.R.W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century, Ingleby, Black, Cohen and Cooke, Imperial War Museum, London, exhibition catalogue, 1999, page 140.