Feb 23, 2010 - Sale 2203

Sale 2203 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
Elijah.

Etching, 1969. 324x552 mm; 12 3/4x21 3/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof. One of only a few signed artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 20. Signed, titled, dated and dedicated "To Campo with warmest feelings of friendship" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Joseph and Hugo Mugnani, Los Angeles. A superb impression of this scarce etching.

Provenance: gift from the artist to the current owner.

We have not found another impression of this print at auction in the past 20 years. There is another impression in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gedeon Ec1.