Oct 03, 2024 - Sale 2680

Sale 2680 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Frederick Douglass.

Graphite and pencil on wove paper, circa 1976. 432x356 mm; 17x14 inches (sheet). Signed in pencil, lower right.

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

This drawing is a preparatory study for Hughie Lee-Smith's 1976 portrait painting Frederick Douglass, commissioned by the Banneker-Douglas Museum, Annapolis, MD.