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Property from a Private Collection, Potomac

Charles White

Head of a Man

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May 15, 11:34 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

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Property from a Private Collection, Potomac

Charles White

1918 - 1979


Head of a Man

signed and dated ‘42 (lower right)

tempera on Masonite

20 by 16 in.

50.8 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in 1942.

Barnett-Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C. (acquired by 1967)

Acquired from the above in January 1984 by the present owner

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Barnett-Aden Collection: 100 Years of Multi-Ethnic Art, January 1974 - February 1975, no. 116, p. 26, illustrated in color; p. 148, illustrated

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Conference of Artists Honors Ten African American Artists, April 1980

New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, Images of Dignity: A Retrospective of the Works of Charles White, June 1982 - August 1982, no. 2, p. 47

Harry Belafonte, James Porter and Benjamin Horowitz, Images of Dignity: The Drawings of Charles White, Los Angeles, 1967, p. 33, illustrated (titled Negro Youth)

Exh. Cat., The Art Institute of Chicago; New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Charles White: A Retrospective, June 2018 - June 2019, pp. 228-29