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    Lot 35

    GEORGE BELLOWS

    The Hold-up (M. 89)

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    USD 3,000

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    USD 2,500 - USD 3,500

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    GEORGE BELLOWS
    The Hold-up (M. 89)
    lithograph, 1921, on Chine vollant, signed in pencil, annotated 'Bolton Brown-imp', from the edition of 29, with full margins, hinged in two places at the upper sheet edge on the reverse (slightly showing through), otherwise in very good condition; together with The Law is too slow (M. 147), lithograph, 1923, signed and titled in pencil, annotated 'Bolton Brown-Imp', from the edition of 26
    L. 11 x 8½ in. (275 x 217 mm.)
    S. 13 x 10½ in. (330 x 265 mm.) (2)

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