Feb 17, 2011 - Sale 2237

Sale 2237 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 16,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled (Abstract Composition).

Oil on wove paper, 1961. 1016x914 mm; 40x26 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower left.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection.

The vertical composition of this modernist abstraction echoes Lewis's earlier oil painting Metropolis or Tenement I, 1952 and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912.