Sep 21, 2023 - Sale 2645

Sale 2645 - Lot 318

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WILL BARNET
Study for "Summer (The Swing)."

Charcoal and pencil on vellum, 1985-86. 1140x1220 mm; 45x48 inches (image). Signed, titled and dated in charcoal, lower right recto.

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

A study for the same-titled color screenprint with lithography of Barnet's (1911-2012) daughter, Ona, and her son on a neighbor's porch swing in Maine, published in 1986 (see Szoke 186).