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BEAUFORD DELANEY (1901 - 1979)
Untitled (Waterfront Landscape)
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Oil on linen canvas, 1941. 394x493 mm; 15
1
/
2
x19
1
/
2
inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: private collection, NewYork.
This painterly view is the earliest oil painting by Beauford Delaney to come to auction. By 1938,
Beauford Delaney enjoyed a certain amount of celebrity after being featured as an artist in a
Life
magazine article on African-Americans - including a large photograph of him seated in front of his