Jun 04, 2020 - Sale 2535

Sale 2535 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
SAM GILLIAM (1933 - )
Cape #7.

Relief printing, embossing and painting on Jones Road handmade paper, 1980. 521x927 mm; 20 1/2x36 1/2 inches. Edition of 16, with one artist's proof. Signed, dated and titled in blue ink, upper right verso. Printed and published by the Jones Road Print Shop and Stable of Barneveld, Wisconsin.

Provenance: Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, with the label on the frame back; Owens-Illinois Collection, Perrysburg, OH (1981); private collection, New York (2008).

Cape is a wonderful, almost sculptural relief printing with handmade paper, and another example of the creative printmaking collaboration of Bill Weege and Sam Gilliam at the Jones Road Print Shop. Acton 56.