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JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001) Homage to the See Saw.
Conté crayons on cream wove paper, 1974. 1194x876 mm; 47x34 1/2 inches. Signed, titled and inscribed "1-a" in crayon, lower margin.
Provenance: private collection.
Exhibited: Black Masters, American University Museum, Washington, DC, April 24 - May 27, 2007; The Collector's View, the Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ, April 16 - August, 7, 2005.
This impressive work on paper is one in a series of large See Saw or Couples drawings that the artist made of an abstracted couple over a 10-year period. They all derive from his studies for the Family Unity mural, 1974-78; others in the series include Wedding Dance, Red Family and Nesting, each illustrated in Olive Jensen Thiesen's A Life on Paper: The Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas Biggers. Thiesen pp. 78-79 and 96-99.
