Oct 09, 2014 - Sale 2359

Sale 2359 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
ALVIN CARL HOLLINGSWORTH (1928 - 2000)
The Exhibition.

Oil on linen canvas, circa 1964. 610x914 mm; 24x36 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Inscribed "J. H. Whitney Found." in oil, stretcher bar verso.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, with his typed label on the verso; private collection.

Hollingsworth won prestigious painting prizes in the early 1960s - the Emily Lowe Award in 1963 and a John Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1964.