Oct 05, 2017 - Sale 2456

Sale 2456 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CHARLES SEARLES (1937 - 2004)
Untitled.

Acrylic on primed wood construction, 1988. Approximately 1153x508x305 mm; 45x20x12 inches. Signed and dated in acrylic on the base, verso.

Provenance: private collection, Pennsylvania.

Beginning in the late 1980s, Charles Searles began creating three dimensional abstract works in painted wood - as wall pieces and free standing sculpture. He exhibited them at Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia at the time. Today, several examples are in The Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy for the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.