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Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
JACK WHITTEN (1939 - ) My Landscape.
Oil on cotton canvas, 1967. 457x610 mm; 18x24 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "319 Church Streeet, N.Y.C." in ink, upper left verso.
Provenance: the artist: Allan Stone Gallery, New York, with the gallery label on the verso.
My Landscape is the earliest painting by this contemporary artist to come to auction, and dates from the beginning of his career as an abstract painter in New York. Born and raised in Bessemer, Alabama, Whitten moved to New York City in 1960 to attend The Cooper Union, where he graduated in 1964. Shortly thereafter, Whitten was included in the 1965 Four Men–One Theme: Jack Krueger, Richard Lethem, Mel Roman, Jack Whitten at the Allan Stone Gallery. In 1968, Whitten also had his first solo exhibition in New York at the Allan Stone Gallery.
