LOT DETAILS

Materials:

green marble

Measurements:

12.99 in. (33.00 cm.) (height)

Markings:

signed with initials 'EC' (along the edge)

Exhibited:

New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, Elizabeth Catlett: Prints and Sculpture, September 26, 1971-January 9, 1972. Purchase, New York, Neuberger Museum of Art; Houston, Texas, University of Houston, Blaffer Gallery; Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Mexico City, Mexico, Museo de Arte Moderno; Atlanta, Georgia, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, February 8, 1998-November 12, 1999, pp. 68, 103, no. 26, illustrated.

Literature:

M.A. Herzog, “My Art Speaks for Both My Peoples”: Elizabeth Catlett in Mexico,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995, pp. 215, 369, fig. 83, illustrated. M.A. Herzog, Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico, Seattle, Washington, 2000, p. 154, pl. 10, illustrated.

Provenance:

The artist. Richard V. Clarke, New York, acquired from the above, 1972. Private collection, by descent. Swann, New York, 14 February 2013, lot 141, sold by the above. Acquired by the present owner from the above.