Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 130

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
TWO PORTRAITS OF HENRY OSSAWA TANNER BY JAMES AMOS PORTER (ART.) PORTER, JAMES AMOS. H.O. Tanner From Memory, Paris, 1935 * H.O. Tanner From Memory, Paris, November, 1935. Pencil and pen drawings respectively, each 6x4 inches, on 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inch paper, matted and framed. Paris, 1935
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Provenance: Collection of the artist's daughter. Porter, art historian and pioneer in the research of African-American art studies, was a friend of Tanner's. Porter devoted an entire chapter to Tanner in his Modern Negro Art (Dryden Press, 1943).