Oct 08, 2009 - Sale 2189

Sale 2189 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WALTER WILLIAMS (1920 - 1988)
Sunflowers and Blackbirds.

Color woodcut on thin imitation Japan paper, 1962. 349x540 mm; 13 3/4x21 1/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist's Proof" in pencil, lower margin. A five-inch horizontal split inside the image. A very good, richly inked impression.

Provenance: acquired by the current owner in 1963 from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NYC.