Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WILLIE TORBERT (1959 - )
Untitled (Two Dancers).

Collage and mixed media on heavy wove paper, 1988. 570x762 mm; 22 1/2x30 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right.

Provenance: private collection.

Born in Buffalo, NY, Torbert studied at the Pratt Institute, City University of New York and Medgar Evers College, New York. He has exhibited his collages and watercolors in many New York galleries, and his works are found in the collections of Medgar Evers College, Philip Morris Company, the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company, Newark, NJ, and the Equitable Life-Whitney Museum Collection.