Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977)
Untitled (Head of a Young Woman).

Graphite on wove paper, 1974. 229x229 mm; 9x9 inches. Signed and dated "3/10/74" in pencil, lower right.

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

An apparent study for the painting of the young woman on the right of lot 100. 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.