TRAYLOR BILL Untitled (Two Men Two Women and a Bird)

Sale 2105 - Lot 133

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Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000

AN EXCEPTIONAL PIECE OF OUTSIDER ART TRAYLOR, BILL. Untitled (Two Men, Two Women and a Bird). Crayon and pencil drawing on cardboard, 15x10 inches; faint wrinkle to lower right blank corner; two narrow strips of brown paper at top left and bottom left, attached to the cardboard. [Alabama, circa 1940s]

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Bill Traylor (circa 1856-1949) was born a slave on the George Hartwell Traylor plantation near Benton, some 40 miles from Montgomery, Alabama. He created his first known works in 1939 at the age of eighty-three, when he began to draw with pencil on scraps of cardboard. A young local artist named Charles Shannon began bringing Traylor pastel crayons and charcoal pencils and in 1940 arranged for the artist's first formal showing through the New South group in Montgomery. Later Shannon brought Traylor's work to New York, and today it is exhibited in museums around the world.
Provenance: the property of a lady, acquired from Carl Hammer Galleries in 1992.