Feb 16, 2012 - Sale 2268

Sale 2268 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 12,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
AARON DOUGLAS (1899 - 1979)
Backyard Scene.

Watercolor and pencil on thick wove paper, circa 1950-55. 229x305 mm; 9x12 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: private collection.

This intimate outdoor scene likely come from the artist's time spent in Nashville while teaching at Fisk University, where Douglas was a professor and the head of the Art Department by 1953.