Sale 2649 - Lot 136

HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)

Torso and Ribbon.

Pencil on wove paper, circa 1986-87. 203x279 mm; 8x11 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: the collection of the artist; estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection.

The image of classical statue of a male torso and a ribbon appears in both Lee-Smith's 1986 painting Prelude and his 1987 Bondage.