?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) Untitled (Nude).
Oil monotype on cream wove paper, circa 1939. 228x179 mm; 9x7 inches, wide margins. With the artist's estate ink stamp, lower right
Provenance: the artist, Los Angeles; Heritage Galleries, Los Angeles; private collection, Los Angeles.
Exhibited: Charles White, Images of Dignity, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA, February 26-May 3, 2004, with the label on the backing paper.
This lot and the previous lot are extremely scarce examples of oil monotype by Charles White - the first to ever to come to auction. Other known examples of these intimate portraits from the period include Kitchen Debutantes, watercolor, circa 1939, and The Mirror, oil on canvas, circa 1940.
