Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SAM GILLIAM (1933 - )
Untitled.

Watercolor on thin Japan paper, 1970. 610x940 mm; 24x37 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower center.

Provenance: private Washington, DC collection.

Sam Gilliam's early 1970s works on paper imitated his experimental draped canvases and floor paintings. They were also stained and saturated--the reaction of the thin paper to the wet paint was incorporated into the image-making.