Dec 03, 2020 - Sale 2553

Sale 2553 - Lot 55

Unsold
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000
SARGENT JOHNSON (1888 - 1967, AMERICAN)
The Knot and the Noose.

Terracotta, mounted on a wooden base, circa 1948. 432x229x76 mm; 17x9x3 inches. Incised signature, lower right recto.

Provenance: private New York collection.

Illustrated: LeFalle-Collins, Lizzetta, San Francisco Museum of Art, Sargent Johnson African American Modernist, page 66, plate 25, illus. in color, (a different terracotta casting of the same form) 1998.