Sale 2528 - African-American Fine Art, January 30, 2020

17 c PETER E. CLARKE (1929 - 2014) Summer Evening . Gouache on paper, 1960. 559x432 mm; 22x17 inches. Signed and dated “5.9.60” in gouache, lower left. Provenance: the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago. This work on paper and the following lot are very scarce, early works by this important contem­ porary South African artist. Born in Simons Town, South Africa, Peter Clarke is best known for his graphic prints, particularly his woodcuts, and in his later years, collage. Inf luenced by Mexican muralist and 17