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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Jacob Lawrence

The Family

Auction Closed

November 22, 10:23 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Jacob Lawrence

1917 - 2000

The Family



signed Jacob Lawrence and dated '64 (lower right) 

tempera on board

board: 24 by 20 inches (61 by 50.8 cm)

framed: 31 ¼ by 27 inches (79.4 by 68.6 cm)

The artist
Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, 1965
A Private Midwest Collection (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owners
New York, Terry Dintenfass, Inc., Jacob Lawrence Paintings, January 1965
Los Angeles, California, UCLA Art Galleries, Dickson Art Center, The Negro in American Art, September-October 1966, no. 3
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; St. Louis, Missouri, The St. Louis Art Museum; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum; Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Kansas City, Missouri, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art, Jacob Lawrence, May 1974-March 1975, no. 147, p. 59
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum; Oakland, California, Oakland Museum of California; Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Jacob Lawrence: American Painter, July 1986-December 1987, no. 101, p. 215, illustrated
Springfield, Ohio, Springfield Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio, Ohio Arts Council, Riffe Gallery, Masterworks by Twentieth Century African-American Artists, January-June 1998, no. 33
Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999): A Catalogue Raisonné, Seattle, Washington, 2000, no. P64-01, p. 155, illustrated 
Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, Seattle, Washington, 2000, fig. 73, pp. 181-82, 184, illustrated
Patricia Hills, Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence, Berkeley, California, 2009, pp. 243-44, fig. 182, illustrated