Apr 05, 2018 - Sale 2472

Sale 2472 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 30,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled (Sketch to Charlie Parker's Music).

Pen and ink with wash on thin cream wove paper, circa 1949. 381x432 mm; 15x17 inches. Signed in ink, lower left.

Provenance: the estate of the artist/Tarin Fuller, New York; E. Kassim Bnoye, New York; Seth Taffae Fine Art, New York; private collection, Michigan.

Exhibited: Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), including Smithsonian Institution, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC, October 30, 1997 – January 19, 1998.

Illustrated: Clark Terry and Milt Hinton, Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz, p. 13.