Oct 05, 2017 - Sale 2456

Sale 2456 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 21,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001)
The Mammies.

Conte crayon on cream wove paper, 1979-1980. 760x562 mm; 30x22 1/8 inches. Bristol watermark. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection.

Exhibited: The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, April 2 - September 3, 1995; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; October 15, 1995 - January, 13, 1996, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, May 19 - July 14, 1996, with the labels on the frame back.