Sale 2472 - African-American Fine Art, April 5, 2018

80 c CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) Untitled (Study of a Pregnant Woman) . Tempera on illustration board, circa 1968-70. 635x305 mm; 25x12 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; Mr. Abram S. Ginnes, New York and Los Angeles, and Mrs. Pattie Q. Bernhardt (formerly Ginnes), New York and Chicago; thence by descent to the current owners. This evocative image in vivid colors is a rare tempera painting by the artist. Charles White drew and painted a small number of images of a pregnant woman in profile. White’s large ink drawing Seed of Love , 1969, (Gedeon D250) in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is well known as it was included in the exhibition Two Centuries of African American Art . Lucinda Gedeon also catalogued both a similar small tempera study and an oil painting Pregnant Woman , circa 1969-70 (Gedeon B69-70). Not in Gedeon. [30,000/40,000]