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Preliminaries (Preliminaries to the Big Bout)
Lithograph
1916
Signed in pencil by the artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth (J.B.B.)
Numbered by the artist
Edition: 67
Depicts a prize fight at Madison Square Garden
Provenance Bellows Family Trust
Bibliography
Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 24.
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 36 and p. 169.
Sheet: 17 5/8 x 21 1/4"
Image: 15 3/4 x 19 1/2"
Frame: 31 1/4 x 34 3/4 x 1 5/8"
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