Oct 08, 2009 - Sale 2189

Sale 2189 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 14,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001)
Untitled (Ghana Harvest Festival Study).

Conte crayon and pencil on cream wove paper, 1960-65. 570x700 mm; 22 1/2x27 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in crayon, lower right.

Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist, 1981; private collection.

A large, early study with processional themes and motifs found in the artist's monumental mural Jubilee: Ghana Harvest Festival, 1959-63, and other market drawings from 1959.