Nov 30, 2023 - Sale 2654

Sale 2654 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 2,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CARROLL CLOAR (1913 - 1993, AMERICAN)
Untitled, (Figure Studies).

Pencil on paper. Signed, Carroll Cloar, lower right. Inscribed, Alice B., on verso, (This inscription is likely a reference to Memphis gallery owner Alice Bingham, who represented Cloar). 280x584 mm; 11x23 inches.

Provenance: Collection of Dr. Benjamin Caldwell of Nashville, Tennessee; Collection of John Daniel Tilford.

The figures in this drawing relate to the painting, Black Levee, painted in the 1960s and is the artist's subtle reference to and support for the civil rights movement.