Dec 15, 2015 - Sale 2402

Sale 2402 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
SAM GILLIAM (1933 - )
Leather.

Watercolor on thin Japan paper, 1969. 584x864 mm; 23x34 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Washington, DC.

This is a large, early example of Sam Gilliam's works on paper that imitated his experimental draped canvases and floor paintings of the same period. They were also stained and saturated--the reaction of the thin paper to the wet paint was incorporated into the image-making.