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Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000
ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012) Untitled (Head of Woman).
Oil and oil monotype on cream wove paper, 1959. 349x267 mm; 13 3/4x10 1/2 inches (sheet). Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New York.
Exhibited: Remembering Elizabeth Catlett, June Kelly Gallery, New York, January 24, 2014 - February 25, 2014.
Untitled (Head of a Woman) is a wonderful example of a unique work from Elizabeth Catlett's mid-career period. Works in oil - paintings and monotype - by Elizabeth Catlett are very scarce. We have located or found records of less than a dozen other paintings in private collections - most are small portraits in oil from her 1940s New York period. In the later Untitled (Head of a Woman), we have a fascinating and very rare moment of experimentation within the oil medium by Catlett. A sculptural quality can be found in the various mark-making and the flattening of the forms - similar to her iconic linoleum cut, Sharecropper, circa 1952. This is the first unique work on paper by the artist from the 1950s that we have located.
