Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 9,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
Pope X.

Etching, 1972. 475x700 mm; 18 3/4x27 1/2 inches, full margins. Trial proof, one of only 4 signed trial proofs from the total edition of 25. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Trial Proof" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Joseph and Hugo Mugnani, Los Angeles. A superb impression of large, scarce print.

Provenance: ex-collection Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, with the exhibition label.

Exhibited: Cypress College, Cypress, CA, November, 1978, and the Selma Burke Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 1979.

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 20 years. Gedeon Ec9.