"Pinning the Hat" [Delteil 30], lithograph in colors on Arches Ingres laid paper and with the MBM watermark,1898, aside from the edition of 200 in colors (there was also an edition of 100 in black, 50 in sanguine and 50 in bistre), signed in the stone lower right, printed by Auguste Clot, Paris, Published by Vollard, Paris; Image: 23 1/2 x 19 1/4 in., Sight: 25 x 20 3/4 in., Sheet: 35 1/2 x 24 1/2 in., Frame: 40 x 35 1/2 in.

Matted and framed under glass. Sheet hinged to mat at the two upper corners. An approximately 1 inch-long tear at lower edge near left-hand corner. A 1 inch-long crease at upper right corner. A few minor spots of foxing in the margins. Toning along edges.

Property from the Estate of Ernest E. Warsaw, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces, navigator with the 100th Bomb Group, the famed “Bloody Hundredth” of the Eighth Air Force, who flew 13 combat missions over Europe before being shot down and taken prisoner in 1943.