Swann Galleries - The Shape of Things to Come: African-American Fine Art - Sale 2353 - June 10, 2014 - page 142

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CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
A pair of unique etchings.
Head of a Man, in profile
, printed in brown on cream wove paper, 1979. 229x298mm; 9x11
3
/
4
inches,
full margins. Initialed and inscribed “not for sale” in ink, lower right. Inscribed “Rough Proof ” in
ink, lower margin.
Head of aWoman, three quarter profile
, printed in brown ink on cream wove paper, 1979. 222x305mm;
8
3
/
4
x12 inches, full margins. Initialed and inscribed “not for sale” in ink, lower image. Inscribed
“Extremely Rough Proof ” in ink, lower margin.
Provenance: Hand Graphics, Sante Fe; Onyx Gallery, NewYork; Frank Stewart, NewYork; private
collection, NewYork.
Gedeon states that only one impression of each of these was created, and that the etchings “were executed
in the last year of the artist’s life.” Gedeon Ec16, Ec20.
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