Jun 13, 2013 - Sale 2318

Sale 2318 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WILLIAM BLACKBURN
Untitled (Man at Open Doorway).

Oil on canvas. 650x530 mm; 25 5/8x20 7/8 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto. Ex-collection private collection, New Jersey.

North Carolina-born Blackburn (1908-1993) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia and the Grand Central Art School in New York, as well as in Paris and Florence. Influenced by Regionalism, particularly the work of Thomas Hart Benton, his rural scenes often depicted African Americans.