Mar 07, 2006 - Sale 2070

Sale 2070 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 4,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JAMES LESESNE WELLS
African Nude with Still Life.

Color linoleum cut on Japan paper, 1980. 540x455 mm; 211/4x173/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof. Signed, titled and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin. Ex-collection James Wells, the artist's son. Exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., the California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, with the labels on the frame back; and the Studio Museum of Harlem, New York. A superb impression of this scarce print with vibrant colors.