Oct 04, 2018 - Sale 2487

Sale 2487 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 4,420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PORTFOLIO
The Eatonville Portfolio.

Portfolio with 4 pigmented Inkjet prints, 2003. Each 305x305 mm; 12x12 inches (sheet), loose as issued. Published by Light Work, Syracuse, New York.

Includes DAWOUD BEY. Jason. 280x280 mm; 11x11 inches. Signed and dated "2003/2004" in ink, verso * LONNIE GRAHAM. Thompson Avenue, Eatonville, FL, 229x356 mm; 9x14 inches. Signed, dated and titled in pencil, lower margin recto * CARRIE MAE WEEMS. Untitled (Eatonville Series). 280x280 mm; 11x11 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, verso * DEBORAH WILLIS. View from the Pulpit, Eatonville, FL. 280x356 mm; 11x14 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Each matted, with printed title page and the black portfolio box.

Provenance: Light Work, Syracuse, New York; the Dr. Robert H. Derden Collection of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003).

The tile page reads: "The four works in this portfolio were produced for Embracing Eatonville: A Photographic Survey. Eatonville, Florida is the oldest black incorporated town in the United States, and a place where celebrated writer Zora Neale Hurston lived and worked."