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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ALMA THOMAS (1891 - 1978) Untitled (Composition in Red).
Acrylic and pencil on thick wove paper, circa 1976. 229x152 mm; 9x6 inches. With the artist's ink estate signature stamp, lower left verso.
Provenance: Wendell Street Gallery, Boston; Alitash Kebede, Los Angeles; obtained at auction, Christie's, New York, June 30, 2008, private collection.
Exhibited: Living with Art: Modern & Contemporary African American Art, Selections from the Alitash Kebede Collection, traveling exhibition, including the California African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles and the Bermuda National Gallery, January 2003 - February 2008.
This small work on paper is a possible study for the left panel of Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music, acrylic on canvas, 1976, in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
