Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 18,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
SAM GILLIAM (1933 - )
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Acrylic on 2 shaped canvases, 1979. Approximately 1015x1015 mm; 40x40 inches (assembled.)

Provenance: purchased by the current owner from Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1979.

Exhibited: Sam Gilliam: New Work, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, November 16 - December 12, 1979; Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, 2007, with the gallery labels on the canvas backs.

A similar 2-piece work, Open Cylinder, from 1979 is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.