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NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Madam
.
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1943. 254x197 mm; 10
3
/
4
x7 inches, wide margins. Arches
watermark. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed “To Dorothy-Kenneth” in pencil, lower margin.
A very good, dark impression of this extremely scarce print - we have not found a record of another
impression.
In 1943, Norman Lewis was teaching painting at the new George Washington Carver School in
Harlem, where he joined an impressive staff, including Ernest Crichlow (painting), Charles White
(drawing), and Elizabeth Catlett (sculpture). 1943 was also one of the last years Lewis worked with
social-realist subjects before moving into abstraction.
[5,000/7,000]