Feb 17, 2009 - Sale 2169

Sale 2169 - Lot 24

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

Etching, circa 1940. 151x125 mm; 5 7/8x4 7/8 inches, wide (full) margins. Proof, before the numbered edition of 10 with aquatint. A good, dark impression with warm plate tone and inky plate edges of this very scarce proof.

This is the earliest known etching by Charles White we have found. We located only one other impression - with aquatint and printed in a numbered edition of 10 at Aaron Galleries in Chicago, which is dedicated to Truman K. Gibson, Jr., the Executive Director of the 1940 American Negro Exposition in Chicago where White first received national recognition for his work. This lot is the same impression that was sold at Swann Galleries on March 10, 2005. Not in Gedeon.