Feb 17, 2011 - Sale 2237

Sale 2237 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
SARGENT JOHNSON (1888 - 1967)
Singing Saints.

Lithograph on wove paper, 1940. 305x235 mm; 12x9 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, inscribed "To Violet Goodman" and numbered 109/150 in pencil, lower margin. A very dark impression of this scarce print.

Although the edition is relatively large, this iconic print is scarce today--this is only the third impression to come to auction. We have found impressions in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum, Dallas, the California African-American Museum, the Oakland Museum of Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, and the Harriet and Harmon Kelley Collection of African-American Art.