?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) John Brown.
Lithograph, 1949. 380x260 mm; 15x10 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 50. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Robert Blackburn, Printmaking Workshop, New York. A very good, dark impression of this very scarce print.
We have not found another impression at auction in 20 years, and only two known impressions, in the collections of The Library of Congress, and the University Museum Gallery, Hampton University, Washington, DC.
Provenance: Gift of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.
Illustrated: Cedric Dover, American Negro Art, p. 20; View Points-the Library of Congress Selection of Pictorial Treasures, p. 205; Jewish Currents, February 1981, cover; American Prints in the Library of Congress, a Catalogue of the Collection, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1991, p. 523. Gedeon Ea9.
