Oct 04, 2007 - Sale 2122

Sale 2122 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 33,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001)
The Man.

Conte crayon and charcoal on cream wove paper, circa 1955. 862x585 mm; 36x24 1/4 inches. Signed in crayon, lower left.

Exhibited in Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976 (exhibition traveled to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art) and 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.