LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black pencil and graphite on card

Size Notes:

9 1?4 x 9 1?2 in.

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, Ricco Maresca Gallery, Bill Traylor: An American Prodigy, 20 November- 24 December 1997. Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, Bill Traylor (1854-1949) Deep Blues, 4 November 1998- 31 January 1999 (Bern) and 26 February- 16 May 1999 (Cologne). New York, American Folk Art Museum, Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections, 11 June- 22 September 2013.

Literature:

Josef Helfenstein and Roman Kurzmeyer, Deep Blues: Bill Traylor 1854-1949 (Yale University Press, 1999), no. 29. Ricco Maresca Gallery, Bill Traylor: An American Prodigy (Ricco Maresca, 1993), no. 47. Valérie Rousseau and Debra Purden, Bill Traylor (5 Continents Editions, 2018), p. 30.

Provenance:

Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired from the above) Gifted to the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections from the above in 1991