?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012) Domestic Worker.
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1946. 546x390 mm; 21 1/2x15 3/8 inches, full margins. From a presumed edition of 50. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City.
Provenance: from the estate of Dr. Lewis W. Marshall, Sr., Washington, DC; thence by desent, private collection, Washington, DC.
This very scarce print is the first lithograph Catlett created at the Taller de Gráfica Popular upon her move to Mexico in 1946 and the first lithograph she printed in Mexico. It coincides with her I am the Negro Woman linoleum cut series, 1946 - 1947, which was the print series Catlett began when she arrived in Mexico. Another impression of Domestic Worker is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. This is only the third impression to come to auction.
