Oct 06, 2016 - Sale 2424

Sale 2424 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980)
Cow Woman.

Charcoal on buff wove paper, circa 1970-77. 762x508 mm; 30x20 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower left, and titled in charcoal, upper right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; Camille Billops, New York.

Hale Woodruff continued to explore the figure in charcoal through the 1970s--these dynamic sculptural studies are in such collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Paul R. Jones Collection, Atlanta, the University of Delaware and the Bank of America Collection, Charlotte, NC.