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

painting of the early 1970s. These 1972 paintings were experimental works made on the studio f loor with Gilliam’s “soak-stain” technique. Jonathan Binstock details the artist’s innovative direction at the time: “This kind of stunning soak-stain effect was explored to the extreme in beveled-edge paintings made between 1970 and 1972, such as Red April , Blue Twirl , and Scatter , in which one of Gilliam’s main purposes appears to have been to create the most exquisite and improbable color combinations he could imagine.” Binstock pp. 92 and 94.   [40,000/60,000]