Jun 24, 2010 - Sale 2219

Sale 2219 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 21,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled (Abstract Cityscape).

Brush, pen and ink on cream wove paper, 1949. 490x610 mm; 19x24 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; collection of Oral Lovell, Wellesley, MA: thence by descent to the current owner, private collection.

Exhibited: Norman Lewis Black Paintings 1946-1977, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 1 - September 20, 1998, with the label on the frame back.

Illustrated: Norman Lewis Black Paintings 1946-1977, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1998, #52, pl. 17 and p. 32.