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JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001)
Homage to the See Saw.
Conté crayons on cream wove paper, 1974. 1194x876 mm; 47x34
1
/
2
inches. Signed, titled and
inscribed “1-a” in crayon, lower margin.
Provenance: private collection.
Exhibited:
Black Masters
,American University Museum,Washington, DC. April 24 - May 27, 2007;
The Collector’s View
, the Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ, April 16 - August, 7, 2005.
This impressive work on paper is one in a series of large
See Saw
or
Couples
drawings that the artist
made of an abstracted couple over a 10-year period.They all derive from his studies for the
Family
Unity
mural, 1974-78; others in the series include
Wedding Dance
,
Red Family
and
Nesting
, each
illustrated in Olive Jensen Thiesen’s
A Life on Paper: The Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas
Biggers
.Thiesen pp. 78-79 and 96-99.
[15,000/25,000]