Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 26

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DOX THRASH (1893 - 1965)
Untitled (Nude Model, Seated).

Carborundum mezzotint, over traces of a previously aquatinted image, on soft cream wove paper, circa 1944-46. 175x121 mm; 6 7/8x4 3/4 inches, full margins. A very good, dark impression of this very scarce print.

Provenance: the artist; Elsie Y. Cross, Philadelphia; thence by descent to the current owner.

Illustrated: Ittmann. Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, pl. 118, p. 113.

Exhibited: Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 27, 2001 - February 24, 2002.

Ittmann records only two known impressions of this print--this one and another in a private collection. Ittmann 118.