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Estimate: $ 50,000 - $ 75,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999) The Encounter.
Oil on linen canvas, 1991. 762x914 mm; 30x36 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.
Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.
Exhibited: Hughie Lee-Smith: A Retrospective, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, July 1 - August 1, 1997 (traveling exhibition); Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, with the label on the frame back.
The Encounter is a wonderful example from his final period of painting where Lee-Smith's enigmatic figues are now actors on a landscape stage full of intrigue and beauty.
