Oct 06, 2022 - Sale 2616

Sale 2616 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015)
Mother and Child.

Lithograph on wove paper, 1952. 533x469 mm; 21x18 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 20/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by José Sanchez and published by the Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City.

John Wilson's Mother and Child, a study for the 1952 mural, now destroyed, The Incident, is one of his most impressive lithographs. This is the larger and earlier of the two versions of this print. In addition to some differences in the drawing, in this version, the artist's signature and date are also added in the stone, lower left. Other impressions are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.