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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999) Untitled (Sketch of a Boy).
Charcoal on thin buff wove paper, 1937. 281x228 mm; 11 5/8x9 inches. Signed and dated "Nov. '37" in charcoal, lower right. With numerous artist's notations in pencil at the sheet edges.
Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection.
This intimate drawing of a seated boy appears to be a preliminary study for Hughie Lee-Smith's 1938 oil painting Portrait of a Boy. It is a scarce example of a drawing from his Cleveland period of the late 1930s when Lee-Smith was studying at the Cleveland School of Art and developing an interest in social realism.
