JACOB LAWRENCE (1917-2000)
20.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508336
Lot 520 | JACOB LAWRENCE (1917-2000)
Estimate value
2000000USD $ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
The Marble Players
signed and dated 'Jacob Lawrence 49' (lower right)
tempera on gessoed board
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1949.
Provenance
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Frances W. Pick, Glencoe, Illinois, 1950
By descent from the above to the present owner
Literature
P.T. Nesbett, M. DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999): A Catalogue Raisonné, Seattle, Washington, 2000, p. 112, no. P49-02 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Little Show of Work in Progress: Paintings by Robert Gwathmey and Jacob Lawrence, Ceramics by Edwin and Mary Sheier, January-February 1950.
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Art for 13,000,000, June 1950.
| Artist: | Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Tempera |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Tempera |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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