Apr 02, 2015 - Sale 2378

Sale 2378 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JAMES C. MCMILLAN (1925 - )
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Charcoal on cream wove paper, 1950-51. 622x476 mm; 24 1/2x18 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in charcoal, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New York.

Exhibited: The Art of James C. McMillan: Loss and Redemption - A Retrospective. African-American Atelier, Inc. Greensboro, NC, 2011; Loss and Redemption: The Art of James C. McMillan, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA, 2009.

Illustrated: Harris, Shawnya. The Art of James C. McMillan: Discovering An African-American Master, fig. 3, p. 6.