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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1907 - 2000) Bombed Buildings - Southampton, England.
Pen and ink on thin cream wove paper, 1945. 279x425 mm; 11x16 3/4 inches. Signed, titled and dated in ink, lower right. Backed with thick wove paper, extensive restoration of edge losses.
Provenance: Ex-collection the artist and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, New York; (via Duncan Parrish Post of the American Legion, New York, Benefit Auction) Milton Brown; hence by descent to Dr. Blanche Brown, New York.
Included and illustrated in the Peter Nesbett and Michelle du Bois's Jacob Lawrence, Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), a Catalogue Raisonné, p. 220.
Jacob Lawrence had already received great critical acclaim as a young artist before his World War II military service. The Migration of the Negro series was published in Fortune Magazine two years before he was inducted in 1943. In 1944 he was assigned to the USS General Wilds P. Richardson, a troop transport ship stationed in Boston that travelled to England, Italy, Spain, Gibraltar, Port Said (Egypt), and Karachi. He completed a series of these sketches in a spiralbound notebook. The artist served in the U.S. Coast Guard until December 6, 1945, when he was discharged and returned to Brooklyn. Nesbett/DuBois D 45-01.
