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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Untitled
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Oil on masonite board, 1955. 457x610 mm; 18x24 inches. Incised signature and date in oil, upper right.
Provenance: private collection, Detroit: private collection, Chicago.
This untitled painting by Hughie Lee-Smith is an excellent example of the artist’s career-defining
body of work from Detroit in the 1950s.Two years earlier, Lee-Smith was awarded by the Detroit
Institute of Arts its prestigious Founders Prize, a national painting award, for his painting
The Piper
,
now in their permanent collection.
