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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999) Nude.
Oil on masonite board, 1949. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed and dated in oil, upper right.
Provenance: the collection of the artist; estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection.
Exhibited: Three Masters: Eldzier Cortor, Hughie Lee-Smith, Archibald John Motley, Jr., Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, May 22 - July 17, 1988, with the exhibiton label verso.
This early oil painting is one of the artist's few known nude paintings. This modern nude shows the development of Hughie Lee-Smith's painting of the figure by the late 1940s. Lee-Smith was actively exhibiting his work in Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit in the late 1940s. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he used funds from the G.I. Bill to complete his bachelor's degree at Wayne State University in Detroit in 1953.
