Apr 06, 2023 - Sale 2632

Sale 2632 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
GLORIA R. BOHANON (1938 - 2008)
Untitled (Abstraction).

Oil and collage on cotton canvas, circa 1970. 965x813 mm; 38x32 inches. Initialed in ink, lower right recto. Signed and numbered 4 in ink, verso.

Provenance: the estate of Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn, Los Angeles, CA. Naomi Caryl (1931 - 2022) was a singer, actress, artist and a longtime collector and patron of the arts in Los Angeles. She was the daughter of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the financier, philanthropist, and collector of modern art whose gift to the nation of nearly 6,000 works of art established his namesake museum on the National Mall. She also was a longtime friend of Joan Wheeler Ankrum, the founder of the Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles, whose gallery exhibited many African American artists.

Exhibited: Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, with the label on the frame back.