Feb 16, 2012 - Sale 2268

Sale 2268 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BENNY ANDREWS (1930 - 2006)
Portrait of George C. Andrews.

Pen and ink on heavy wove paper, 1986. 559x368 mm; 22x14 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated "July 14, 1986" and inscribed "Cefalu, Italy" in ink, lower image.

This drawing of George "The Dot Man" Andrews is a portrait of Benny's father, a self-taught artist who had several exhibitions alongside his son. Andrews completed an oil and collage portrait of his father the same year.