Apr 04, 2019 - Sale 2504

Sale 2504 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 32,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled (Eye Composition).

Oil, pen and ink on wove paper, 1956. 502x660 mm; 19 3/4x25 7/8 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "To Madrigelle and Leonard" in ink, lower left.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, Margradel and Leonard Hicks, New York (1956); thence by descent, private collection, Vermont.

A scarce example of Norman Lewis' fascinating abstract compositions made of eyes - another example dated 1957 was sold at Swann Galleries on October 5, 2017.