?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
ROBERT BLACKBURN (1920 - 2003) Girl in Red.
Color lithograph on cream wove paper, 1950. 464x318 mm; 18 1/4x12 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin.
We have found no other impression of this scarce print at auction. The Library of Congress prints and photographs collection has two impressions of this print, one dated 1950, and one dated 1951; the Brooklyn Museum also has a 1950 impression. Girl in Red was shown in the National Exhibition of Prints at the Library of Congress in 1951 and in the recent retrospective Robert Blackburn: Passages, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, September 18 - December 19, 2014.
