Oct 08, 2019 - Sale 2518

Sale 2518 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
FREDDIE STYLES (1944 - )
Azalea Roots (Working Roots Series #3).

Oil on cotton canvas, 1990. 1219x1829 mm; 48x72 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Titled and dated in ink on the stretcher bars, verso.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Georgia.

A Georgia native, Freddie Styles is a graduate of Morris Brown College and lives in Atlanta. He was an artist-in-residence at Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College, and was the recipient of purchase awards from the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. His work can be found in the collections of the High Museum, Spelman College Museum of Art, Clark Atlanta University and the Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, and the Johnson Publishing Company, Chicago.