The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction
The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction
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)
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