Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WITH A SKETCH OF JOE LOUIS, SIGNED BY HIM (ART.) MASOOD, ALI WILBERT WARREN. Life Sketches, Life Sketches and Sketches from Life. Three sketchbooks, dated October 4, December 13, 1940 and August 1, 1940. Uniform, small 8vo's, "Scribble-in" brand notebooks, approximately 50 pages each. should be seen. Vp, 1940

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with a 1940 sketch of joe louis, signed by louis in the December sketchbook. Ali Wilbert Warren Masood (1907-1995) was a painter and sculptor known primarily for his portrait busts of famous people. He attended the Art Students League in New York in the 1930s, participated in the WPA artists program and earned a BA from New York University in 1939 and an MA from Temple University in 1961. Warren's work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, and the National Arts Club, and much of his work is in the Richard Allen Museum in Philadelphia.