Apr 03 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2698 -

Sale 2698 - Lot 20

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015)
Mexican Woman.

Lithograph on wove paper, 1951. 241x288 mm; 9½x11⅜ inches, wide (full?) margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 08/30 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by the artist at the Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City.

Additional Details

In 1950, with his award of the John Hay Whitney Fellowship, Wilson and his wife, Julie moved to Mexico City where he studied mural painting at the Esmeralda School of Art.

A very good, dark impression of this scarce print. Other impressions are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Pensylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.