Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 24,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
Missouri C.

Etching, 1972. 499x913 mm; 19 5/8x36 inches, full margins. From an intended edition of 25, of which only 16 were signed and numbered. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "ED" and numbered 12/25 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Joseph and Hugo Mugnani, Los Angeles. An excellent impression of this scarce, monumental print, one of the artist's largest etchings.

Provenance: ex-collection Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles; ACA Gallery, New York, with the labels on the frame back.

Exhibited: Cypress College, Cypress, CA, November, 1978, with the label on the frame back.

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 20 years. Gedeon Ec8.