Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Elizabeth Catlett

Reclining Woman

Session begins in

May 16, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Bid

90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Elizabeth Catlett

1915 - 2012


Reclining Woman

incised with the artist's initials (on the base)

mahogany

14 by 30 by 11 ½ in.

35.6 by 76.2 by 29.2 cm.

Executed in 1986.

Private Collection (acquired by 2001)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

David C. Driskell, The Other Side of Color, San Francisco 2001, pl. 60, p. 111-12, illustrated in color

Tracey L. Walters, Not Your Mother’s Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women’s Media, New Brunswick 2021, p. 198