Oct 03, 2024 - Sale 2680

Sale 2680 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
CLEVELAND BELLOW (1946 - 2009)
Catch a Southern Beauty.

Screenprint and collage on coated paper, 1972. 610x508 mm; 24x20 inches (sheet). Signed and dated "72" in pencil, upper right. Titled and numbered 38/300 in pencil, upper left.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection, New York.

This striking Pop art image is an early work of art by Cleveland Bellow, a central figure in the Bay Area art scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Recently, his artwork was included in the traveling exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power organized by the Tate Modern, London. The woman depicted in the artwork is Adrienne McGee, a girlfriend of the artist at the time.