Oct 07, 2010 - Sale 2224

Sale 2224 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 9,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
Portrait of a Man.

Graphite and pencil on paper, 1965. 229x318 mm; 9x12 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: the artist; Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles; the collection of Mr. and Mrs. O. Willard Murray, Van Nuys, CA; Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York; private collection, with the labels on the frame back.

Exhibited: African-American Art, 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, January 18 - March 10, 2001; Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, April 20 - July 1, 2001; Collector's Show and Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, December 1, 2000 - Junuary 1, 2001, with the label on the frame back.

Illustrated: African-American Art, 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, p. 60.