Sep 21, 2023 - Sale 2645

Sale 2645 - Lot 303

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WILL BARNET
Study for "Professor Walter Gellhorn."

Pencil on vellum, circa 1970. 418x297 mm; 16 1/2x11 5/8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.

Provenance: Babcock Galleries, New York, with the label; estate of the artist.

Exhibited: "Will Barnet: Drawings," Babcock Galleries, New York, February 20-April 27, 2007, number 6.

Walter Gellhorn (1906-1995) was a legal scholar and professor at Columbia University in New York. An oil on canvas from 1970 by Barnet (1911-2012) of Gellhorn is in the collection of Columbia University.