Oct 19, 2023 - Sale 2649

Sale 2649 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Torso and Ribbon.

Pencil on wove paper, circa 1986-87. 203x279 mm; 8x11 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: the collection of the artist; estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection.

This image of a classical statue of a male torso and a ribbon appears in both Lee-Smith's 1986 painting Prelude and his 1987 Bondage.