February 16, 2012
Live Auction104 East 25th Street
New York, NY, 10010 USA
Phone: 212.254.4710
Fax: 212 979 1017
Email: swann@swanngalleries.com
Viewing NotesExhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2268 - African-American Fine Art - begins at 2:30pm in New York on Thurs, Feb 16. All material in Sale 2268 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Sat, Feb 11: 10am to 4pm - Mon, Feb 13: 10am to 6pm - Tues, Feb 14: 10am to 6pm - Wed, Feb 15: 10am to 6pm - Thurs, Feb 16: 10am to Noon.
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Lot 1: HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859 - 1937) Gateway in Tangier.
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Description: HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859 - 1937) Gateway in Tangier. Etching, circa 1905-10. 238x181 mm; 9 3/8x7 1/8 inches, full margins. A posthumous printing. Signed and numbered 101/120 in ink by the artist's son, Jesse O. Tanner, verso. With the artist's estate ink stamp verso. A very good, dark impression.
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Lot 2: JAMES LESESNE WELLS (1902 - 1992) Two Boats.
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Description: JAMES LESESNE WELLS (1902 - 1992) Two Boats. Linoleum cut on tissue-thin Japan paper, circa 1929. 279x229 mm; 11x9 inches, full margins. A very good impression of this scarce print.
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Lot 3: JAMES VANDERZEE (1886 - 1983) Untitled (Young Man at Home of Josephine Becton).
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Description: JAMES VANDERZEE (1886 - 1983) Untitled (Young Man at Home of Josephine Becton). Silver print, 1934. 251x200 mm; 9 7/8x7 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed and inscribed "NYC 1934" by VanDerZee in the negative. With VanDerZee's "GGG Photo Studio" ink hand stamp on verso. VanDerZee often staged different sitters in the same setting for series of photographs. This photograph of a young boy at a piano, with Valentine's Day chocolates directly in front of him, recalls the same image as At Home, Josephine Becton, with only the ottoman shifting position.
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Lot 4: WILLIAM E. SMITH (1913 - 1997) Pay Day.
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Description: WILLIAM E. SMITH (1913 - 1997) Pay Day. Linoleum cut on thin wove paper, 1938. 206x152 mm; 8 1/8x6 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 18/20 in pencil, lower margin. A good, dark impression of this scarce, early print. Provenance: estate of Varnette Honeywood; thence by descent to the current owner. Smith made another linoleum cut of this subject, with the pose reversed--impressions dated 1941 are in the collections of Hampton University, VA, and Harmon and Harriet Kelley, San Antonio.
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Lot 5: HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980) Relics.
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Description: HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980) Relics. Linoleum cut on cream wove paper, circa 1935. 203x279 mm; 8x11 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this scarce print. Another impression of this print was included in Hale Woodruff: 50 Years of His Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. An impression can be found in the collection of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
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