Oct 09, 2014 - Sale 2359

Sale 2359 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 31,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000
SAM GILLIAM (1933 - )
Paper Theatre.

Raked acrylic on polypropylene on plywood panel, with aluminum frame, 1991. 762x1575 mm; 30x62 inches. Signed, titled and dated in ink, upper right verso.

Provenance: private New York collection.

Exhibited: Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, with the label on the frame back.

Sam Gilliam had his second solo exhibition at the Koplin Gallery, and completed his commission Blue Riders in 1991 for the New York MTA's Parsons/Archer Station at Jamaica Center, Queens. Binstock p. 166.