Apr 04, 2019 - Sale 2504

Sale 2504 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 11,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Piffle.

Oil on cream wove paper, 1951. 476x603 mm; 18 3/4x23 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower left recto. Titled in pencil, upper left verso.

Provenance: gift from the artist; Claire Rumsey, New York (1950s); thence by descent, private collection, Connecticut. Norman Lewis gave this drawing to Ms. Claire Rumsey, a Westchester artist, who worked as an assistant to Marian Willard at the Willard Gallery in the early 1950s.