BOB THOMPSON (1936-1966)

Lot 103
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$ 400 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1209767
Lot 103 | BOB THOMPSON (1936-1966)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
BOB THOMPSON (1936-1966)
Thompson, B.
Music Lesson
signed and inscribed 'BT Marcellus from Bob T. this is my man Bob T winter and summer together love you till the end' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
47 ½ x 47 ½ in. (120.6 x 120.6 cm.)
Painted in 1962.




Provenance

Private collection, acquired directly from the artist
Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Washington, D.C.
Private collection, New York
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997



Literature

H. Taha, Collecting African American Art, Works on Paper and Canvas, New York, 1998, p. 147.



Exhibited

Hanover, Hood Museum of Art; New York, Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Frances Loeb Art Center; Charlotte, Afro-American Cultural Center; Milwaukee, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art; New York, Brookville, Hillwood Art Gallery; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; Las Vegas, Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art; Iowa, Grinnell College; Georgia, Columbus Museum; Little Rock, The Arkansas Arts Center; Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology Columbia; Fort Myers, Edison Community College Gallery; Lexington, University of Kentucky Art Museum; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art and Savannah, Telfair Academy of Arts and Science, African-American Artists 1880-1987, Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, January 1989-August 1991, pp. 96-97, fig. 56 (illustrated).
New York, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, Bob Thompson: Paintings, October-December 1991, no. 1.
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