Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROBERT BLACKBURN (1920 - 2003)
Untitled (Abstract Still Life).

Color crayons on wove paper, circa 1955-1960. 600x480 mm; 23 5/8x19 inches. Unsigned.

Provenance: the artist; collection of Adrienne E. Wheeler; private collection, New Jersey.

Blackburn in the 1950s was associated with printmakers Will Barnet, Ronald Joseph and John Von Wicht in the development of abstraction. This drawing appears to be a study related to the artist's table top abstractions, which he incorporated into his series of Heavy Forms lithographs