Apr 22, 2021 - Sale 2565

Sale 2565 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CHARLES WHITE (1918-1979)
Musician with Guitar.

Graphite and pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1937. 254x203 mm; 10x8 inches. With the artist's estate signature ink stamp, lower center edge.

Provenance: estate of the artist: Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, with the gallery label on the frame back; private collection, New York (1995).

This drawing is a page taken from one of the earliest sketch books of Charles White. White began his studies in the fall of 1937 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Unbound pages from the artist's sketchbooks were sold by Heritage Gallery in Los Angeles when it represented the artist's estate.