Apr 05, 2018 - Sale 2472

Sale 2472 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
THELMA JOHNSON STREAT (1911 - 1959)
Untitled (Abstract Chapel Flower).

Gouache and pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1941-42. 305x178 mm; 12x7 inches. Signed in pencil, lower margin.

Provenance: the estate of the artist, Oregon.

In 1942, Thelma Johnson Streat's similar small gouache Rabbit Man, 1941, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art - their first acquisition of a work by an African-American woman.