Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
Kasai Dance Mask.

Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1937-38. 250x194 mm; 10x7 3/4 inches. Titled and inscribed "Belgian Congo" in pencil, lower margin. Numbered 8 in pencil, lower right, in another hand. With the artist's estate signature ink stamp, lower right.

Ex-collection the artist; Ben Horowitz, Los Angeles; Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles.

This beautiful drawing comes from one of the artist's earliest sketchbooks from his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago.