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HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980)
Black Boy.
Oil on masonite, circa 1930-35. 273x216 mm; 10 3/4x8 1/2 inches. Incised signature, lower right recto. Signed and titled in oil, verso.
Provenance: collection of the artist; thence by descent to the Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël Trust.
This early study is one of only a handful of early paintings by Woodruff that have come to auction with an African-American subject. The limited, dark palette and simplified forms link this work to the period just after his return from France. Woodruff did a number of paintings of children, including his celebrated Negro Boy, 1938, in the collection of Robert L. Johnson from the Barnett-Aden Collection.
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