Oct 03, 2013 - Sale 2323

Sale 2323 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JOHN T. SCOTT (1940 - 2007)
Garden of Urban Delights.

Graphite on hand made paper, 2005. 254x222 mm; 10x8 3/4 inches. Signed and dated "3 August 2005" in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, with the label on the frame back; private collection.

This wonderful and Hieronymus Bosch-like scene of New Orleans was eerily drawn just weeks before Hurricane Katrina.