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

21 c JOSEPH A. KERSEY (1909 - 1982) Three Witch Doctors Bedes (Benin) . Oil on masonite board, 1970. 457x610 mm; 18x24 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Signed and titled in ink, verso. Provenance: the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago. This fascinating, almost Surrealist, painting depicts African voodoo charms of the 17th Century set in a landscape. A Chicago native, Joseph Kersey was educated in Chicago public schools and attended the Art Institute of the Chicago. He was a member of the Arts and Crafts Guild founded