Nov 17, 2022 - Sale 2622

Sale 2622 - Lot 54

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
EMERSON WOELFFER
Untitled.

Oil on paper, 1973. 575x443 mm; 22 3/4x17 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto.

Woelffer (1914-2003) was a leading California Abstract Expressionist painter-printmaker. He was active on the East Coast during the late 1940s and early 1950s, teaching at Black Mountain College, Asheville, North Carolina, where fellow artists like Jacob Lawrence, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and John Cage also taught, and exhibiting frequently in New York.

Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.