Oct 07, 2010 - Sale 2224

Sale 2224 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 26,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980)
Yellow Landscape.

Oil on canvas, circa 1970-77. 762x1016 mm; 30x40 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Signed and titled in ink, upper stretcher bar verso.

Provenance: private Washington, DC collection; thence by descent to a public charity.

This striking oil is from a series of abstract and brightly colored landscapes painted by Hale Woodruff in the early 1970s--including Blue Landscape, in the collection of Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, and Red Landscape in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.