Jun 24, 2010 - Sale 2219

Sale 2219 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
FAITH RINGGOLD (1934 - )
Bessie Blues.

Color oil pastels on thin buff wove paper, 1997. 415x345 mm; 16 1/4x13 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right.

Provenance: ACA Galleries, New York, with the label on the frame back.

This drawing is a study for the same-titled painting of the singer Bessie Smith, from Ringgold's American Collection series.