Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
BENNY ANDREWS (1930 - 2006)
Rosiebelle Wildcat Tennessee.

Mixed media collage, with various papers and fabrics, on cream wove paper, 1979. 660x508 mm; 26x20 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right recto. Signed, titled and dated in ink, lower right verso.

Provenance: private collection.

Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee is the title and subject of Benny's brother's, the writer Raymond Andrews, Muskhogean County novel of life in the Deep South. This second novel of his "bawdy, and sometimes horrifying" trilogy tells the legendary story of a beautiful "acorn-brown" woman. The book was published in 1980 with illustrations by Benny Andrews.