Feb 17, 2009 - Sale 2169

Sale 2169 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CLIFFORD LEE
The Torn Screen.

Lithograph, circa 1965. 380x280 mm; 15x11 inches, trimmed to the image. Signed and titled in ink, lower edge. A very good impression of this scarce print.

A social-realist Chicago artist working in the 1950s and 60s, Clifford Lee's works are very scarce today. Lee is included in Theresa Dickason Cederholm's and Lynn Moody Igoe's listing of African-American artists, the 1974 Ebony Handbook and Falk's Who's Who in American Art.