May 13, 2014 - Sale 2350

Sale 2350 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 6,144
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CLEVE GRAY
Untitled.

Oil on canvas, 1959. 560x750 mm; 22x29 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Ex-collection Staempfli Gallery, Inc., New York, with the label on the frame back. Gray (1918-2004) was born in New York and associated with American Abstract Expressionism following his studies at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Princeton University. From the 1950s onward he lived and worked on a 90+ acre farm owned by his family in Litchfield County, Connecticut.