Oct 09, 2014 - Sale 2359

Sale 2359 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ERNEST CRICHLOW (1914 - 2005)
Untitled (Young Worker with Birds).

Brush and ink, acrylic and collage on illustration board, 1979. 254x343 mm; 10x13 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: private New York collection; thence by descent to its current owner.

This work seems to combine two of Crichlow's most famous works: the acrylic painting Young Worker, in the Paul R. Jones collection at the University of Delaware, and his famous print Waiting. In this mixed media piece, we see the barbed wire motif used in Waiting with the same young female subject of Young Worker.