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CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977)
Untitled (Head of a Man)
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Crayon and pencil on wove paper, circa 1975. 229x178 mm; 9x7 inches.With the artist’s estate ink
signature stamp, lower right.
Provenance: estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.
This head is part of a group of studies Alston made for a late 1970s figure composition. Alston
painted and drew many of his students at City College of New York, where he was a painting
professor from 1973 until his death in 1977.
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