"Contre Dance," First State
Date1925
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 3 11/16 × 2 5/16 in. (9.4 × 5.9 cm)
sheet: 5 3/8 × 4 7/16 in. (13.7 × 11.3 cm)
sheet: 5 3/8 × 4 7/16 in. (13.7 × 11.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-96
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis is Sloan's first etching of Angna Enters, produced late in 1925, after he saw her perform that November. The first state is nearly complete. He would refine her facial features for the final edition.