Portrait of a Black man

Sale 1926 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 6,900

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000

19TH CENTURY PORTRAITPortrait of a Black man, a nearly full-length portrait of a well-proportioned Black man posed in striped shorts. Oil on canvas, 21 1/4x17 3/4 inches stretched, with an applied paper border frame of faux wood. Signed and dated lower left in block letters "Aouila Boeldji pinxt Massachussets 1823." Massachusetts , 1823

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A striking portrait of a handsome young man, despite significant repair and overpainting.<