Oct 07, 2021 - Sale 2581

Sale 2581 - Lot 66

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
SAMELLA LEWIS (1924 - )
Migrants.

Linoleum cut on thin imitation Japan paper, 1967. 432x610 mm; 17x24 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/25 in pencil, lower margin.

Provenance: Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, with the label on the frame back; Benny Carter, Los Angeles; private collection, California (2003), acquired at Abell's Auction, Los Angeles. This print was acquired from the estate auction of jazz great Benny Carter (1907-2003).

A very rich, dark impression of this scarce print; other impressions are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.