Feb 06, 2007 - Sale 2102

Sale 2102 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
VINCENT SMITH (1929 - 2004)
Lovers.

Woodcut on thin cream Japan paper, 1971. 243x140 mm; 13 1/8x9 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Artist's proof, one of only a few known impressions. Signed "Vincent", titled and inscribed "AP" in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this scarce print.

Provenance: Ex-collection the artist.

Smith was born in New York in 1929, and in the 1950s he studied at the Art Students League, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, the Newark Museum, Newark.