Sep 21, 2023 - Sale 2645

Sale 2645 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WILL BARNET
Woman on a Porch.

Charcoal and pencil on vellum, 1978. 1065x800 mm; 41 7/8x31 5/8 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, upper right recto and inscribed "Final sketch of 1st state . . . " in pencil, upper right.

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

The current work on vellum is likely a preparatory sketch for an unrealized lithograph and resembles Barnet's (1911-2012) color lithograph, Woman by the Sea, 1973 (see Szoke 152). It is related to the artist's early Maine series inspired by the Barnet family's summer visit to Chamberlain, Maine.