Feb 06, 2007 - Sale 2102

Sale 2102 - Lot 201

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES LESESNE WELLS (1902 - 1995)
Watusi Family.

Linoleum cut printed in orange and black on soft, textured artificial Japan paper, 1988. 455x330 mm; 17 3/4x13 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 20/40 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression.

Wells' later works show an increased interest in African culture, particularlyin the late 1960s, after his travels through West Africa with his son, a Time-Life photographer and after his retirement from Howard University.