Norman Lewis
Block Island
signed and dated 1973 (lower right); signed and dated 75 (lower left); titled Block Island (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
50 by 60 in.
127 by 152.4 cm.
Executed in 1973-75.
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Details
signed and dated 1973 (lower right); signed and dated 75 (lower left); titled Block Island (on the stretcher)
50 by 60 in.
127 by 152.4 cm.
Provenance
Quida Lewis, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, New York (acquired in 1989)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1999)
Swann Galleries, New York, 4 April 2019, lot 105
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibition
New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Stroke! Beauford Delaney, Norman Lewis and Alma Thomas, January - March 2005, p. 6 and pp. 32-33, illustrated in color
Literature
"Harlem's Bearden, De Carava, Van Der Zee and More at African-American Fine Art At Swann," Harlem World Magazine, 8 March 2019 (online)
Victoria L. Valentine, "Swann African American Art Sale Yields Records for Women Artists Including Simone Leigh, Emma Amos, and Howardena Pindell, Top Lot by Norman Lewis," Culture Type, 8 April 2019, illustrated in color (online)