Graphite on cream wove paper, 2002. 202x153 mm; 8x6 inches. Signed, dated and numbered #2 in pencil, verso.
Provenance: the artist, New York; the Hatch-Billops Collection, New York; private collection, New York.
Lovell draws portraits from a personal archive of approximately 600 studio photographs of anonymous African Americans, most dating from the first half of the 20th century. Lovell often draws them directly on to wood plank assemblages, which might be combined with everyday found objects like chairs, globes, textiles, musical instruments, gramophones and radios.
