Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 21,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
BEAUFORD DELANEY (1901 - 1979)
Portait of Henri Chahine.

Oil on canvas, 1960. 650x540 mm; 25 5/8x21 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.

Provenance: ex-collection the artist; Henri Chahine, 1960; the current owner, Paris.

A friend of James Baldwin's, Henri Chahine was an art collector in Paris in the 1960s whom Baldwin introduced to Delaney.