Oct 19, 2023 - Sale 2649

Sale 2649 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
MICHAEL A. CUMMINGS (1945 - )
Watch and Pray.

Collage of various paper and fabrics with mixed media on wove paper, 2000. 508x495 mm; 20x19 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. From In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Connecticut.

This collage was one of a series of a dozen original artworks created by Michael Cummings. They were commissioned as collage versions of his quilts to illustrate Alice McGill's book In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies. McGill collected and sung these lullabies since childhood; the book included a CD recording of each song, introduced and sung by McGill.