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Estimate: $ 50,000 - $ 75,000
BENNY ANDREWS (1930 - 2006) Time for Church.
Oil with painted canvas, lace collage and staples on cotton canvas, 1999. 1524x660 mm; 60x26 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, center right recto. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "60"H x 26"W" in oil, verso.
Provenance: collection of the artist; thence by descent, private collection.
Exhibited: Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, September 26, 2020 - January 23, 2021, with the gallery label on the frame back board.
Illustrated: Jessica Bell Brown, Connie H. Choi, and Kyle Williams. Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
This portrait of a seated woman in her Sunday best surrounded by colorful flowers is an excellent example of the painted collages of Benny Andrews.
