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NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled.
Oil on canvas, 1955. 635x1270 mm; 25x50 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; Oral Lovell,Wellesley, MA; thence by descent to the
current owner. Oral Lovell was a significant collector of Norman Lewis’s works and was his close
friend from 1959 to 1965.They met through a circle of NewYork City artists, including Romare
Bearden and Charles Alston.