Apr 03, 2025 - Sale 2698

Sale 2698 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 173,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150,000 - $ 250,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Girl Fleeing.

Oil on linen canvas, 1959. 660x813 mm; 26x32 inches. Signed, lower right.

Provenance
Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts Rental Gallery, Detroit, 1970.
Private collection, Detroit.
DuMochelles Galleries, Detroit, June 15, 2015, lot 2019.
Private collection, Detroit.

Exhibited
Detroit Collects: Selections of African American Art from Private Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, November 12, 2019 – March 15, 2020.

Published
Hughie Lee-Smith, Karma, New York, p. 162. (illustrated).