The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

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Jacob Lawrence

Two Comedians and a Dancer

Live auction begins on:

May 15, 11:30 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jacob Lawrence

1917 - 2000

 

Two Comedians and a Dancer

signed and dated 58 (lower right)

tempera on board

18 by 23 ⅞ in.

45.7 by 58.4 cm.

Executed in 1958.

The Alan Gallery, New York

Flora Whitney Miller, New York (acquired by 1974)

Sotheby's New York, 28 May 1987, lot 328 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale)

Andrew and Ann Dintenfass, Pacific Palisades

Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1987)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999): A Catalogue Raisonné, Seattle 2000, no. P58-04, p. 141, illustrated in color

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum; Birmingham Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts and New Orleans Museum of Art, Jacob Lawrence, May 1974 - March 1975, no. 136, p. 58 (text)