Feb 23, 2010 - Sale 2203

Sale 2203 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 19,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
BEAUFORD DELANEY (1901 - 1979)
Untitled (Cannes).

Watercolor and gouache on textured wove paper, 1967. 495x610 mm; 19 1/2x24 inches. Arches watermark. Signed, dated and inscribed "Cannes" in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: the artist, Paris; private New York collection.

This sun-drenched landscape was painted during the artist's brief trip to the south of France. James Baldwin briefly took Delaney to Cannes in June 1967 to get him away from Paris. Leeming, p. 175.