Feb 17, 2009 - Sale 2169

Sale 2169 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
HILLIARD R. DEAN (1933 - )
My House.

Color woodcut, circa 1955. 490x610 mm; 19 1/4x24 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed, titled and numbered 3/5 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce print.

Provenance: the collection of print dealer, Norman Kraeft.

We have found no records of prints by this Washington, DC artist at auction. A number of his prints are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His work is also mentioned in Afro-American Artists, A Bibliographical Directory, edited by Theresa Dickason Cederholm, Boston Public Library, 1973, and in Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art, 1992.