Feb 06, 2007 - Sale 2102

Sale 2102 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
REGINALD GAMMON (1921 - 2005)
Jamaica.

Tempera and gouache on paper, 1963. 363x260 mm; 14 1/2x11 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right.

Provenance: Ex-collection the artist; the artist's estate and New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, N.M.

An early example of the artist's illustration work made just before the formation of the Spiral Group. An early member with Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew in 1963, Gammon was one of the young black artists who added more political and social themes to their works in response to the struggles of the period.