Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JOHN T. SCOTT (1940 - 2007)
What Choice Do We Have.

Mixed media and collage on wove paper, 1998. 743x857 mm; 29 1/4x33 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Titled in white pencil, lower left.

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

Born in New Orleans and raised in the lower Ninth Ward, John T. Scott has produced artwork shaped largely by diverse and local African, African-American, Caribbean and Creole cultures. Throughout his life, his work was also influenced by the blues and jazz musical traditions. Scott's paintings, sculpture and prints have been featured in many gallery and museum exhibitions, and in 1992, he was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Biography courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery.