Oct 19, 2023 - Sale 2649

Sale 2649 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Harriet Tubman.

Pencil on wove paper, circa 1980. 279x216 mm; 11x8 1/2 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 1980 portrait painting Harriet Tubman commissioned by the Banneker-Douglas Museum, Annapolis, MD.