Oct 19, 2023 - Sale 2649

Sale 2649 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?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. 356x330 mm; 14x13 inches. Signed in pencil, lower left.

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

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