Sep 17, 2020 - Sale 2542

Sale 2542 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROCKWELL KENT
A Man on a Rocky Outcropping.

Pen and ink and wash and pencil on cream wove paper, 1946. 280x195 mm; 11 1/4x7 3/4 inches. With the artist's estate ink stamp, lower right recto, and L. W. Frohlich and Company, Inc., approval ink stamp, verso.

Scott Ferris has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Ex-collection Larcada Gallery, New York; sold Christie's, New York, November 7, 2005, lot 108; private collection, New York.

This work was conceived by Kent as an advertisement for the Schering Corporation, a pharmaceuticals company, and was never realized.