Peasant on Path / Figures and Ruins

 

Eugene Higgins

  1874 - 1958 (biography)

c. 1910  

pen and ink and watercolor, etching on verso 

painting: 9 x 12 1/8"; etching: 

ink signed, lower right corner on watercolor side 

unique; etching: not stated 

in ink, below signature: A.H. Cole; on etching side: titled; numbered 150 

Christies East sale of 6/1/88, lot 156 

heavy wove; etching “Figures and Ruins” on verso 

etching: published 

artist 

11155 

$1,500.00 

This drawing is signed by Higgins in the lower right and annnotated "A.H. Cole". There is a proof of the etching "Figures and Ruins" on the verso, which was done around 1944 and won a Second Prize at a Library of Congress "Second National Exhibition of Prints Made During the Current Year" in 1944.