Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JOSEPH HOLSTON (1944 - )
Woman in a White Dress.

Gouache and pastel on board, circa 1970. 559x457 mm; 22x18 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: private collection, Washington, DC.

This early drawing is only the second work by Washington, DC painter, printmaker and illustrator Joseph Holston to come to auction. His work is in many museum collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, Howard University, the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.