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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 3, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | Two Centuries: American Art | 51 | $****** - ****** | Boy from Georgia |
paintings
52.7 x 37.5 cm (20.75 x 14.75 in)
oil on board
<font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Private collection, HungaryWoodshed Art Auctions, Franklin, Massachusetts, ndPrivate collection (acquired at the above sale; sold: Christie's, New York, May 22, 2019, lot 73) Acquired by the present owner at the above sale</font></font></font></font>
This work will be included in the forthcoming Thomas Hart Benton catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonné Foundation. Committee Members: Dr. Henry Adams, Jessie Benton, Anthony Benton Gude, Andrew Thompson and Michael Owen. A letter from Dr. Henry Adams, dated March 2019, accompanies this lot.
Catalogue note
According to Dr. Henry Adams, the present work "fits well with Benton's portrait studies of about 1928 . . . the painting is based on a series of sketches of African-American cotton pickers that Benton made in Georgia, probably during his cross-country sketching tour of 1928." He continues, "the brushwork of the painting has a somewhat rough but highly intelligent and purposeful character . . . It has the sweeping quality of rhythmically related forms that are characteristic of Benton's style."
