Swann Galleries - African-American Fine Art - Sale 2424, October 6, 2016

34 NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)

Woman

Lithograph on cream wove paper, circa 1944. 203x375 mm; 8x14

inches, full margins. Signed,

titled, and dated “Nov-6-1949” in pencil, lower right. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed “Litho-

$25-139W. 125 St, NYC. 27. NY” in ink, mat verso.A very good, dark impression of this extremely

scarce print.

Provenance: Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, New York, with the label on the mat, verso; the estate of

Robert L. Zarbock, Escondido, California; private collection.

This early abstracted figure by Norman Lewis appears to be a wonderful interpretation in lithography

of the figure in lot 33. Ruth Fine included two proofs of this lithograph in the retrospective

Procession:The Art of Norman Lewis

, both printed on sheets of the

The NewYork Times

.We have not

located any other impressions. Fine 17; p. 138.

[5,000/7,000]