Apr 04, 2019 - Sale 2504

Sale 2504 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 37,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled (Composition in Green and Red).

Oil on cream wove paper, 1960. 504x654 mm; 19 7/8x25 3/4 inches. Signed and dated "2-3-60" in ink, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, Margradel and Leonard Hicks, New York (1960s); thence by descent, private collection, Vermont.

The paper has the printed Inkweed Arts illustrations on the verso - found on many Lewis works on paper from the late 1950 and 1960s.