Feb 16, 2012 - Sale 2268

Sale 2268 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977)
Untitled (Head of a Man).

Crayon and pencil on wove paper, circa 1975. 229x178 mm; 9x7 inches. With the artist's estate ink signature stamp, lower right.

Provenance: estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.

This head is part of a group of studies Alston made for a late 1970s figure composition. Alston painted and drew many of his students at City College of New York, where he was a painting professor from 1973 until his death in 1977.