Apr 04, 2019 - Sale 2504

Sale 2504 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
MARGO HUMPHREY (1942 - )
With only the Gods.

Color drypoint with chine collé, 1994. 565x762 mm; 22 1/4x30 inches. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "Haitian Compassion Suite" and numbered 7/11 in pencil, verso. Printed at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, New York, withthe blindstamp lower left From the Haitian Compassion Suite.

This print references the Haitian refugee crisis - Humphrey depicts children in a boat with godly figures from Haitian mythology on the bow and stern on a storm-tossed sea.