Apr 04, 2019 - Sale 2504

Sale 2504 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 81,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000
SAM GILLIAM (1933 - )
Longing.

Acrylic and polypropylene on stitched, handmade paper collage mounted on three wooden panels, 1993. 762x1295 mm; 30x51 inches. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed "30x51" in ink, verso.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Los Angeles, California.

Exhibited: Sam Gilliam, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, California, with the gallery label on the verso.

This acrylic on board is a very good example of the experimental raking technique that Sam Gilliam used in his painting throughout the 1980s and 1990s.