ID 949325
Lot 5 | ALMA THOMAS (1891-1978)
Valeur estimée
$ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
A Fantastic Sunset
signed, titled and dated '"a Fantastic Sunset" Alma W. Thomas 70' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 1970.
Provenance
Private collection, Philadelphia
Private collection, St. Louis
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 13 November 2019, lot 26
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Alma W. Thomas, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972, p. 1.
M. A. Foresta, A Life in Art: Alma Thomas, 1891-1978, Washington, D.C., 1981, p. 45 (titled Astronauts See a Fantastic Sunset).
D. C. Driskell, The Other Side of Color, San Francisco, 2001, p. 42, pl. 21 (illustrated).
Everything is Beautiful, exh. cat., Columbus Museum, 2021, pp. 24, 125, fig. 8 (installation view illustrated).
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The Art Barn, First Invitational Exhibit, May 1971.
Baltimore, Morgan State College Gallery of Art, Black Matri-Images: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Laura Wheeler Waring and Paintings and Prints by Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Jones, Alma W. Thomas, December 1972-January 1973, n.p., no. 70.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, CONVERSATIONS: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the Camille O. and William H. Cosby Collections, November 2014-January 2016, p. 208, pl. 120 (illustrated).
| Artiste: | Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891 - 1978) |
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| Style artistique: | art d'après-guerre |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures |
| Artiste: | Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891 - 1978) |
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| Style artistique: | art d'après-guerre |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures |
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