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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
RUTH G. WADDY (1909 - 2003) The Key.
Linoleum cut on thin Japan paper, 1969. 273x483 mm; 10 3/4x19 inches, wide (full?) margins. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "Lino-cut" and numbered 14/25 in ink, lower left.
A good impression of this very scarce print - this linoleum cut by Ruth Waddy has been described as "one of the most important and influential pieces to come out of the Black Arts movement." Another impression is illustrated in Samella Lewis and Ruth Waddy's 1969 survey Black Artists on Art, Volume I. Waddy also edited the influential survey Prints by American Negro Artists published in 1965. De Graaf/Mulroy/Taylor p. 236; Lewis/Waddy p. 118.
