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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999) The Balance.
Oil on cotton canvas, 1981. 584x838 mm; 23x33 inches. Signed in oil, lower left.
Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.
The Balance is a beautiful and evocative painting that demonstrates Lee-Smith's continued exploration of both surrealism and the depiction of modern isolation into his late career. As depicted in his The Juggler #1. 1961, collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Two Boys, 1968, collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lee-Smith conitnues to develop the symbolic imagery of balancing with figures standing on top of concrete walls in his paintings.
