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CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977)
Untitled (Head of aYoungWoman).
Graphite on wove paper, 1974. 229x229 mm; 9x9 inches. Signed and dated “3/10/74” in pencil,
lower right.
Provenance: estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.
An apparent study for the painting of the young woman on the right of lot 100.Alston painted and
drew many of his students at City College of NewYork, where he was a painting professor from
1973 until his death in 1977.
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