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CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
Awaiting His Return.
Lithograph, 1946. 402x310 mm; 15
3
/
4
x12
1
/
4
inches, wide margins. Proof, aside from an edition of
approximately 25. Printed by the artist at the Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City. A very good,
dark impression of this very scarce print.
Provenance: gift from the artist; private collection, NewYork, thence by descent to the current owner.
Awaiting His Return
was printed in Mexico in 1946 after CharlesWhite finished his military service
and the end of the war permitted a safe passage abroad.This impression is dated 1945, and others
have even been dated as early as 1943, presumably due to the wartime subject—an African-American
woman seated near a banner of the Gold Star, a husband’s or son’s medal of bravery.
This is the first unsigned proof, and only the third impression of this lithograph, to come to auction.
We have located only two other known impressions—in The David C. Driskell Collection,
University of Maryland, and Howard University Gallery of Art, Howard University,Washington,
DC. Gedeon Ea4.
[6,000/9,000]