Jun 01, 2023 - Sale 2639

Sale 2639 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Catlett, Elizabeth (1915-2012)
Rafaela.

1959.

Screenprint on wove paper, number sixty-five from an edition of eighty-five, signed by the artist in pencil, lower right, creased, with one corner formerly rolled, surface abrasions to verso, 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.

Catlett continued her exploration of printmaking after accepting a Rosenwald Fund Fellowship to study in Mexico in 1946. Her interest in social themes and representational work seemed more appropriate in the context of the work of Mexican artists in the period, in contrast to the American trend toward Abstract Expressionism. She lived in Mexico for decades, only returning to the States in 1983.