Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ROY DECARAVA (1919 - 2009)
Pickets (Strikers).

Color screenprint, circa 1946-1951. 318x251 mm; 12 1/2x9 7/8 inches, full margins. Inscribed "13" in pencil, lower left. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early print.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist by Anne Kurakin, the artist's second wife.

Illustrated: Peter Galassi, Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective, p. 15.

Other impressions of this print can be found in the collection of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC and Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries.