Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SEDRICK HUCKABY (1975 - )
Self-Portrait.

Oil on plywood board, circa 1997-99. 248x114 mm; 9 7/8x4 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Wendell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA; private collection.

This self-portrait is by Texan artist Sedrick Huckaby, who received his B.F.A. from Boston University in 1997, and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1999. Huckaby's recent work includes painterly portraits inspired by jazz music and quilts that have been in his family. He has been honored with several awards, such as the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the Anne Giles Kimbrough Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art, and in 2008, the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is found in many museum collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.