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SARGENT JOHNSON (1888 - 1967) Divine Love.
Etching on cream wove paper, circa 1930. 152x114 mm; 6x4 1/2 inches, wide margins. Signed, titled and dated "33" in pencil, lower margin.
Another impression dated 1930 is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Illustrated: Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, San Francisco Museum of Art, Sargent Johnson: African American Modernist, plate 7, p. 48 (another impression printed in brown from a 1935 printing).
This scarce print is a beautiful example of Sargent Johnson's interest in both Modernism and African sculpture. While working on a small scale, Johnson's imagery elevated the depiction of African American women in fine art to a new level in the 1930s.
