Lot 71: PAUL SAMPLE (1896-1974) ‘Red Hot Bar on Chain’ and ‘Worker Holding Curled

PAUL SAMPLE (1896-1974) ‘Red Hot Bar on Chain’ and ‘Worker Holding Curled Metal with Tongs’: Two Works the first, signed ‘Paul / Sample’ (lower right), numbered ‘5’ and inscribed with title (on the reverse); the second, signed ‘Paul Sample’ (lower right), numbered ‘6’ and inscribed with title (on the reverse) each, oil on canvas the first, 16 1/2 x 20 1/2in; the second, 16 1/8 x 20 1/4in Painted circa 1936.

Provenance Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., Great Falls, Montana. Private collection, New York, gift of the above. By descent to the present owner. Literature Anaconda II, Fortune Magazine, vol. XV, no. 1, January 1937, pp. 74-75, both works illustrated. The present lot is being sold with a copy of the January 1937 issue of Fortune Magazine in which these works were originally published.