Feb 13, 2014 - Sale 2338

Sale 2338 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HUGHIE LEE SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Untitled (Ballplayers, Wharf, and Ladder).

Pen, ink, and pencil with wash on cream wove paper, circa 1930s. 216x279mm; 8 1/2x11 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.

This fascinating small work on a paper is a preliminary sketch of a painting composition.