Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
CHARLES SHEELER (1883-1965)
Conversation - Sky and Earth. Silver print, the image measuring 8 1/2x7 inches (21.6x17.8 cm.), with Sheeler's credit, title, and the notation The Downtown Gallery, in ink, and other numeric notations, in pencil, all in an unknown hand, on verso. 1940; printed circa 1940

Additional Details

In 1940, the editors of Fortune magazine published a series of six paintings commissioned of Sheeler, including the two images offered here.