Ink, watercolor and collage on wove paper, 1959. 229x330 mm; 9x13 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: estate of the artist; Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.
Illustrated: Charles "Spinky" Alston, Works from 1936 -1969, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, 2004, p. 22.
Like Norman Lewis, Alston painted with black in a series of works through the late 1950s and early 1960s . He "considered the black and white abstractions in a retrospective shown in 1968 to be amongst his most important he had done." A founding member of the Spiral Group in 1964, Alston continued to paint abstract works through the early 1960s. Romare Bearden and Harry B. Henderson, Jr., A History of African-American Artists, p. 269.
