Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001)
Toil in Tropics.

Oil on board, 1946. 430x330 mm; 16x12 inches. Signed, titled and dated "Summer 1946" in pencil, verso.

Provenance: estate of the artist, Oakland, CA.

In the 1940s, before his teaching position at Talladega College, Clark traveled to the Caribbean and painted vividly colored works based on local subjects. Others from this period include Sponge Fisherman in the Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr. collection and Slave Lynching in the David C. Driskell Collection, University of Maryland.