Sep 21, 2023 - Sale 2645

Sale 2645 - Lot 329

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WILL BARNET
Two charcoal Youth studies on vellum.

Study for "The Circle", 1995-96. 605x482 mm; 23 3/4x19 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower right recto * Study for "Three Points", with additions in oil and pastel, 1995-96. 482x572 mm; 19x22 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in charcoal, lower right recto.

Provenance: Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida, each with the label; Babcock Galleries, New York, each with the label; estate of the artist.

These are studies for Barnet's (1911-2012) Youth series produced from 1994-96, which depicts Barnet's grandchildren supported and framed by geometric shapes. The genesis of the series was a poster commissioned by The Julliard School, New York.