Feb 17, 2011 - Sale 2237

Sale 2237 - Lot 24

Unsold
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
Untitled (Head of a Man).

Charcoal and pencil on thin cream wove paper, circa 1937-40. 250x203 mm; 10x8 inches. With the artist's estate signature ink stamp, lower right.

Provenance: the artist; Ben Horowitz, Los Angeles; Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles; private collection, New York; private collection.

This wonderful portrait and study in chiarusco comes from one of the artist's early sketchbooks during or shortly after his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago.