Apr 04, 2024 - Sale 2664

Sale 2664 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Untitled (Portrait on a Palette).

Oil on a wooden artist's palette, circa 1970s. Approximately 305x400 mm; 12 ½x15¾ inches. Signed in oil, lower right.

Provenance: private collection, Hoboken, NJ; acquired at Rago Auctions, February 9, 2008; private collection, Philadelphia.

Exhibited: The Palette Reveals the Artist: Grumbacher Palette Collection, The Long Island Museum, October 30, 2004 - January 30, 2005, The Butler Institute of American Art, March 13 - May 1, 2005, The Art Students League of New York, June 1 - 27, 2005, with the labels on the frame back.