Apr 06, 2017 - Sale 2442

Sale 2442 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012)
Barbed Wire (Separation).

Linoleum cut on wove paper, circa 1954. 121x146 mm; 4 3/4x5 3/4 inches, full margins. Proof, from an editon of an unknown size. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin.

This linoleum cut is a very scarce print by Elizabeth Catlett - based on My reward has been bars between me and the rest of the land from the 1946 I am the Negro Woman series. Another impression entitled Separation and dated 1954 is in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.