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RICHMOND BARTHÉ (1901-1989)
Black Madonna
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Painted terra cotta, 1961. 152x102x76 mm; 4x6x3 inches on the original 2-inch high wooden base.
Signed at the rear.
Provenance: private NewYork collection.
This beautiful and poignant head is also a later work by Barthé from his Jamaica period. It is a smaller
version of the 16
1
/
2
inch bronze in the collection of Samella Lewis.
[8,000/12,000]