CHARLES WHITE (1918-1979)
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1492591 
Lot 39  | CHARLES WHITE (1918-1979)
Estimate value
1200000USD $ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000 
Preacher (Reverend Man)
signed and dated 'Charles. White '40' (lower right)—signed again and inscribed with title 'Reverend Man' (on the reverse)
tempera on paperboard
29 ¾ x 21 ¾ in. (75.6 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted in 1940.
Provenance
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1995.
Literature
H. Taha, Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas, New York, 1998, p. 20, illustrated (as The Preacher).
A.D. Callahan, The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006, cover illustration.
H. Schwartz, "The Charles White Retrospective—Only the Beginning," Daily Art Magazine, October 11, 2018, illustrated.
"From the Archives: Reviews of Charles White’s Exhibitions Over the Decades," ARTnews, October 26, 2018, illustrated.
Exhibited
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Charles White: A Retrospective, June 8, 2018-June 9, 2019, pp. 53, 230, no. 8, pl. 6, illustrated.
| Artist: | Charles Wilbert White (1918 - 1979) | 
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Tempera | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Genre: | Portrait | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Artist: | Charles Wilbert White (1918 - 1979) | 
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Tempera | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Genre: | Portrait | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Address of auction | 
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