Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
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
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