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CHARLES ALSTON (1907 - 1977)
Collage #2
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Mixed media and paper collage on wove paper, 1959. 254x330 mm; 10x13 inches. Signed and dated
in ink, lower right.
Provenance: the artist; Feingarten Galleries, NewYork (1960); acquired at auction, Christie’s, New
York (circa 1984), private collection.
Exhibited: Feingarten Galleries, NewYork, April, 1960.
Charles Alston painted abstract modernist compositions—oil, collage and works on paper—through
the late 1950s. In 1960, Alston received the Emily Lowe Memorial award and exhibited in April at
Feingarten Gallery, NewYork.Alston was also one of the founding members of the Spiral Group in
the summer of 1963 with Romare Bearden and Hale Woodruff. Like his friend Norman Lewis,
Alston painted primarily with black in a series of works through the late 1950s and early 1960s—
he considered these black and white abstractions shown together in his 1968 retrospective to be
amongst the most important works he had done. Bearden/Henderson p. 269; Jennings p. 22.
[4,000/6,000]
