Dec 15, 2015 - Sale 2402

Sale 2402 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 35,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 35,000 - $ 50,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Untited (Figure at the Shore).

Oil on linen canvas, circa 1960. 457x660 mm; 18x26 inches. Signed in oil, lower left.

Provenance: J. L. Hudson and Company, Detroit; private collection, Detroit, thence by descent to the current owner.

This canvas is a very good example of Hughie Lee-Smith's mid-career painting. It epitomizes his continued exploration of a modern, existential landscape inhabited by isolated figures. Lee-Smith returned often to show his work and teach in Detroit after moving to New York in 1958. Lee-Smith was represented in New York by the Petite Gallery and then Janet Nessler Gallery through the 1960s.