An exceptional item that will be featured in Swann’s October 6 sale of African-American Fine Art: Work, the first large-scale drawing from Charles White’s important 1950s period to come to auction.
Charles White created Work during the height of his Harlem, New York career. The drawing is an excellent example of how, in the early 1950s, White gave a new beauty and dignity to his social realist subjects. White now depicted working men and women on a grand scale, with an intensity of mark making and an attention to natural gestures turning his subjects into heroic figures.
Drawings from 1953 are often used as examples representing White’s oeuvre, including the Art Institute of Chicago’s Harvest Talk, and Ye Shall Inherit the Earth, the cover of Andrea D. Barnwell’s monograph, Charles White.
A full list of the sale’s highlights, including fine paintings by Charles Alston, Barkley Hendricks, Norman Lewis, Hughie Lee-Smith and Hale Woodruff, will be available in July.
African-American Fine Art specialist Nigel Freeman, Swann Galleries, 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, 212-254-4710, swanngalleries.com, blog.swanngalleries.com
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