Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 11,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HAYDEN, PALMER. Portrait of a Seated Women [supplied title]. Untitled color pastel portrait of a seated black woman with a lustrous pearl necklace, 30x22 inches sheet size; lower right corner chipped with some very minor loss; Signed lower left. Np, circa 1940s

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Hayden (1890-1973) was known as "The Janitor who Paints." Born in Virginia, he lived in Paris and New York. His work was shown in the Harmon Foundation "Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists" in 1933. Later exhibitions included the New Jersey State Museum and the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune.