Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
WHITFIELD LOVELL (1959 - )
Looking for Deer.

Charcoal and oil stick on heavy wove paper, 1986. 965x1270 mm; 38x50 inches. Signed in ink, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New York.

In 1986, Lovell won a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and was included in the exhibition Self-Portrait at Kenkeleba Gallery, New York. He continued to show the large scale drawings in charcoal and oil stick that he begun at his Skowhegan residency the year before.