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

17 c LOUISE E. JEFFERSON (1908 - 2002) Blues Singer . Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1938. 210x286 mm; 8 1 / 4 x11 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin. Provenance: the estate of the artist; private collection, Connecticut. Illustrated: African-American Artists, 1929 - 1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, pg. 71. This is the first known lithograph of Louise Jefferson to come to auction. We located another impression of this very scarce print in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with the supplied title, The Nightclub Singer . Another possible impression of this lithograph, entitled Lounge Singer , 1938, is listed in the artist’s papers at the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans. [4,000/6,000]