Mar 31, 2022 - Sale 2599

Sale 2599 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 75,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Bondage.

Oil on linen canvas, 1987. 609x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Initialed and dated in ink, upper right verso.

Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection.

Bondage is related to Lee-Smith's 1986 painting Prelude, which depicts the same classical statue of a male torso.