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

106 c CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) A pair of unique etchings. Head of a Man, in profile , printed in brown on wove paper, 1979. 229x298 mm; 9x11 3 / 4 inches, full margins. Inscribed “not for sale” in ink, lower right. Inscribed “Rough Proof ” in ink, lower margin. Head of a Woman, three quarter profile , printed in brown on wove paper, 1979. 222x305 mm; 8 3 / 4 x12 inches, full margins. Inscribed “not for sale” in ink, lower image. Inscribed “Extremely Rough Proof ” in ink, lower margin. Provenance: Hand Graphics, Sante Fe; Onyx Gallery, New York; Frank Stewart, New York; private collection, New York. Gedeon recorded that only one impression of each etching was created, and that the etchings “were executed in the last year of the artist’s life.” Gedeon Ec16, Ec20. [5,000/7,000]