Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
AARON DOUGLAS (1899 - 1979)
Country Church.

Watercolor, 1954. 350x457 mm; 13 3/4x18 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right.

Provenance: the artist; Barnett-Aden collection, Washington, DC, 1985; private collection, New York.

This charming watercolor was likely painted around Nashville and Fisk University where Douglas was a professor and head of the Art Department by 1953.