Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
REGGIE GAMMON (1921 - 2005)
Boy in Fez.

Color pastel crayons on black wove paper, 1948. 430x190 mm; 17x7 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: estate of the artist, Albuquerque, NM.

Gammon did a series of African and Arabic-inspired figurative images shortly after his move to New York City in 1948. This jewel-like pastel is the only known work remaining from this early series.