Appraisily Check my item

Auction sale reference

Herman Volz (1904 - 1990) Picket Line.

Sold for $1,062 at Swann Auction Galleries on Jan 30, 2025.

Herman Volz (1904 - 1990) Picket Line. auction lot image

Have one like this?

Upload a photo for a free check of what yours may be worth.

Lot description

HERMAN VOLZ (1904 - 1990) Picket Line. Lithograph, circa 1938. 260x355 mm; 10¼x14 inches. Signed and numbered 20/40 in pencil, lower margin. From an edition of 40. : Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Volz came to San Francisco, California in 1933 and was active on the WPA Print Project in San Francisco and later Los Angeles in the 1940s. This scene is most likely a San Francisco scene created in the year 1938. Volz has artworks in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Crystal Bridges Art Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. He had a one man exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum in 1942.

Do not price your object from one auction record.

A signed appraisal checks whether this sale is truly comparable to your item before you sell, insure, donate, or divide an estate.

Get an expert appraisal