Apr 03 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2698 -

Sale 2698 - Lot 87

Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000
ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012)
Mother and Child.

Cast bronze with a brown patina, mounted on a wooden base, 1977-78. 390x180x170 mm; 15¼x7x6¾ inches. Initialed "EC" and numbered "7" and "7/10" on the lower back side.

Provenance
Dr. Dorothy M. Tucker, Los Angeles.
Private collection, New York.

Published
S. Lewis, The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Handcraft Studios, Claremont, CA, 1984, page 33-34, 84 and 156. (illustrated).

Additional Details

A cast dated 1977 from the collection of the artist was exhibited in the 1998-99 traveling exhibition Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture: A Fifty Year Retrospective organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, New York. Another bronze dated 1978 was in the Landau travelling exhibition of the collection of Samella Lewis, The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: From the Collection of Samella Lewis.