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Lot Essay
"1932. Landacre painstakingly repairs an old Washington hand press which Willard Morgan, a photographer and neighbor finds in 1930 in an abandoned gold mining camp in Bodie, California. On this restored hand press Landacre prints nearly all of his wood engravings for the duration of his life." - Jake Milgram Wien, from the chronology appended to the forthcoming Paul Landacre: California Hills & Beyond. A Catalogue Raisonne of the Drawings, Prints, and Paintings
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In addition to the catalogue description, with full margins, the signature and numbering slightly smudged, a few unobtrusive areas of rubbing and flattened creases in places in the margins, a minor loss at the upper sheet edge, thin spots at the upper sheet corners, hinged to a support in two places on the reverse upper sheet edge (slightly showing through), otherwise in generally very good condition
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Lot 66Sale 22028
The PressPAUL LANDACRE (1893-1963)Estimate: USD 2,000 - 3,000
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