Sale 2487 - African-American Fine Art, October 4, 2018

57 c BENNY ANDREWS (1930 - 2006) Untitled (Woman in a Yellow Dress under a Tree) . Oil on thin board, circa 1958-62. 406x279 mm; 16x11 inches. Signed in ink, lower right. Provenance: private collection, New Jersey. This charming painting is a scarce, early example of Benny Andrews’ oil painting at the beginning of his New York period. Andrews studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with funds from the GI Bill after his military service from 1950-53. He then moved to the East Village in New York in 1958, and soon befriended fellow artists Red Grooms, Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, Mimi Gross and Raphael Soyer. Andrews had his first solo exhibition in New York at the Forum Gallery in 1962. [8,000/12,000]