Jan 22, 2015 - Sale 2372

Sale 2372 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ROCKWELL KENT
Study for the Albright Art Gallery Book Plate. Pencil on grey-tinted drawing paper. 187x135 mm; 7 1/2x5 3/8 inches, sheet, hinged with thin sheet of archival mesh to double window matte. Double-sided sheet showing 5 main sketches and a few monogram designs for the Albright Art Gallery, later the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Unsigned but with Kent's stamp, lower right recto. Unstamped side moderately but evenly more sun-toned than the other. The finished ink design is in the museum's collection. 1934.