Oil and ink on wove paper, 1960. 660x511 mm; 26x20⅛inches. Signed and dated "- 60" in pencil, lower left.
Provenance: private collection, California.
This striking, expressive composition examplifies Norman Lewis's work on paper at mid-career. It shows the evolving calligraphy of Lewis's ritual figures or "little figures" within more colorful abstract compositions in the early 1960s.
The sheet of paper has the printed Inkweed Arts illustrations on the verso - found on many Lewis works on paper from the late 1950s and 1960s.
