Oct 04, 2007 - Sale 2122

Sale 2122 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 144,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
The Brother.

Ink on thick cream illustration board, 1968. 1442x814 mm; 56x32 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right. From the I Have a Dream series.

Exhibited at Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1968 and Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, (this exhibit traveled to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art) with the labels on the frame back.

Illustrated in the I Have a Dream portfolio, 1976, plate no. 4, a portfolio of reproductions of the artist's works. Gedeon D240.

Gedeon entitles this work Brother II, as the second and final study of this subject; Brother I is in oil wash and charcoal, estate-stamped and is in the artist's estate. See Gedeon D239.