Oct 04, 2007 - Sale 2122

Sale 2122 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 216,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Slum Song.

Oil on canvas, 1944. 506x610 mm; 20x24 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.

Illustrated in David C. Driskell, Two Centuries of Black American Art, p. 176, and in Samella Lewis, African-American Art and Artists, ill. 104, p. 126.

Exhibited in Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, (this exhibit travelled to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art) with the labels on the frame back.