Jun 10, 2014 - Sale 2353

Sale 2353 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 45,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
SAM GILLIAM (1933 - )
Looking at the Moon.

Raked polypropylene, acrylic, monoprint and color woodblock on an assemblage of collaged handmade papers and sewn found fabric, 1991. Approximately 762x1270x762 mm; 30x50x3 inches (unframed). 965x1473x133 mm; 38x58x5 1/4 inches (framed>). Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: the collection of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene, & MacRae, New York; private collection, New York (2007).

Another example from this stunning Looking at the Moon series is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, New York.