Apr 04, 2019 - Sale 2504

Sale 2504 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 21,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BEAUFORD DELANEY (1901 - 1979)
Untitled (Red and Yellow Composition).

Watercolor and pencil on thin wove paper, 1963. 660x508 mm; 12 1/2x9 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; James and Gloria Jones, Paris; the estate of Gloria Jones (2006), New York; private collection, New York (2011). American writer James Jones and his wife Gloria were close friends, collectors and supporters of Delaney's work while he lived in Paris.

Exhibited: Collected: Propositions on the Permanent Collection, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 1 - October 25, 2009, with labels on the frame back.