Sep 21, 2023 - Sale 2645

Sale 2645 - Lot 313

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
WILL BARNET
Study for "The Hobby Horse."

Charcoal on vellum, 1983. 990x965 mm; 39x38 inches. Signed in charcoal, 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 16; "Will Barnet in Provincetown," Provincetown Art Association and Museum, August 19-October 23, 2011, with the label; "The Art of Will Barnet," Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, June 21-August 12, 2012, with the label.

The same-titled oil on canvas of Barnet's (1911-2012) grandson is in the collection of The Will Barnet Foundation.