Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES LESESNE WELLS (1902 - 1995)
Cluny Garden.

Lithograph, circa 1937-8. 330x254 mm; 13 1/8x10 inches, full margins, Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce print.

We have found only one other impression of this lithograph - in the collection of the artist. It was exhibited and illustrated in the catalogue of James Lesesne Wells, Sixty Years in Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1987.

Wells and his wife spent a summer in Paris at the end of his 1937 sabattical from Howard University. Cluny is the ruined medieval monastery in the Latin Quarter of Paris.