Auction!!!!!! Swaan Galleries African-American Fine Art live auction starts 2:30 PM EST on Tuesday December 15, 2015 live at www.invaluable.com featuring 150 lots of exclusive artworks. Invaluable has lots of fine art auctions, and is teaming up with Swann Auction Galleries to allow remote bidding online. The style of art in this auction includes City Scapes, Protrait and Abstract.
Here are a few noteworthy lots:
Estimated Price: $250,000 - $350,000
Oil on linen canvas, circa 1958. 1295x1625 mm;
51x64 inches. Signed in oil, lower left. This masterful mid-century composition
is a newly discovered and important example of Norman Lewis's painting. In 1955
Norman Lewis won the Carnegie International Award in Painting making him the
first African-American artist to receive this prestigious prize. Then in 1956,
Lewis was selected to represent the United States in American Artists Paint the
City, an exhibition of 46 works by 36. Lewis joined fellow Willard Gallery
artists Lionel Feininger and Mark Tobey; he and Jacob Lawrence were the only
African-American artists included.
Estimated Price: $120,000 - $180,000
Oil on linen canvas, 1946. 851x622 mm; 33 1/2x24
1/2 inches. Signed in oil, upper right recto. Signed and tilted in pencil,
upper stretcher bar verso. Bearden is known for working primarily on paper.
Having enjoyed incredible success, both critically and commercially with his
first exhibition at the Kootz Gallery in 1945, Romare Bearden's career was
launched. He also further extended his exploration of Old Masters or Renaissance
depictions of religious subjects, deftly synthesizing them into Cubism and
abstraction.
Estimated Price: $120,000 - $180,000
Oil on linen canvas, circa 1959-60. 1450x1050
mm; 59x42 inches. Signed in oil, upper left recto. Titled in oil, upper left
verso. This beautiful, large canvas is an excellent and scarce example from
Romare Bearden's period of abstract color field painting in the late 1950s.
Romare Bearden's abstraction was influenced by non-Western intuitive approaches
to imagery. His late 1950s works display less of an interest in the activity of
action painting of expressionism.
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