Apr 02, 2015 - Sale 2378

Sale 2378 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 1,820
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DAWOUD BEY (1953 - )
Millie.

Silver print, 1978. 152x232 mm; 6x9 1/8 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right.

In 1975 Dawoud Bey began his series Harlem, USA, a personal exploration for the artist originally from Queens. The series spanning four years chronicles communities in Harlem which Bey immersed himself in, as a means of understanding his family history and the historically significant, albeit controversial exhibition Harlem on My Mind (1969) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Another print of this photograph was exhibited in the exhibition Dawoud Bey's Harlem, USA, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, 2010-2011.