Apr 06, 2017 - Sale 2442

Sale 2442 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
AMALIA AMAKI (1949 - )
Blue Billie.

Cyanotype printed on cotton canvas, 1992. 511x410 mm; 20 1/8x16 1/8 inches. Edition of 2.

Provenance: the estate of the Richard A. Long, Atlanta, Georgia; acquired at Swann Galleries, October 9, 2014; private collection, Maryland.

According to the artist, only two examples were printed of this image.

In her 2005 mid-career retrospective, Boxes, Buttons and the Blues, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, many of Amaki's jazz singer cyanotypes were exhibited.