Apr 06, 2023 - Sale 2632

Sale 2632 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ANN TANKSLEY (1934 - )
Picnic

Oil on canvas mounted to cardstock, circa 1992. 203x254 mm; 8x10 inches. Signed in oil, lower left.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection, Virginia (1999).

From the artist's series inspired by the 1991 film Daughters of the Dust, this scene depicts a celebratory picnic of the American descendants of West Africans on the eve of their departure from the Gullah Islands.