Jun 10, 2014 - Sale 2353

Sale 2353 - Lot 106

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
A pair of unique etchings.

Head of a Man, in profile,printed in brown on cream wove paper, 1979. 229x298mm; 9x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Initialed and inscribed "not for sale" in ink, lower right. Inscribed "Rough Proof" in ink, lower margin.

Head of a Woman, three quarter profile, printed in brown on cream wove paper, 1979. 222x305mm; 8 3/4x12 inches, full margins. Initialed and incribed "not for sale" in ink, lower image. Inscribed "Extremely Rough Proof" in ink, lower margin.

Provenance: Hand Graphics, Sante Fe; Onyx Gallery, New York; Frank Stewart, New York; private collection, New York.

Gedeon states that only one impression of each of these was created, and that the etchings "were executed in the last year of the artist's life." Gedeon Ec16, Ec20.