Jun 13, 2013 - Sale 2318

Sale 2318 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 7,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROCKWELL KENT
Study of an African-American.

Pen and ink on cream laid paper, 1934. 292x217 mm; 11 1/2x8 1/2 inches. Signed in pencil, lower left recto.

An illustration for L.M. Alexander's Candy, a novel about the lives of Black Americans living and working on a plantation along the Savannah River, in South Carolina, during the late 1920s and 1930s.