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Swann African-American Sale

October 12, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Total with Buyer’s Premium: $820,973 Hammer total: $683,950
Estimates for sale:  $1,168,400 – $1,780,600   We offered 140 lots; 99 sold  (71% sell-through by lot)


122*    Robert Colescott, A Legend Dimly Told, acrylic on canvas, 1982                        $132,000 C
23    Jacob Lawrence, Two Card Players, gouache on brown composition board, circa 1941-42            $67,200 C
8*    Sargent Johnson, Mask, copper repoussé with gilding, 1933                        $67,200 D
72   Alvin D. Loving, Jr., 9 Septehedrons, assemblage of 9 joined shaped canvases, acrylic on canvas, 1969        $36,000 C
19    William Edmondson, Squirrel, stone, circa 1940                            $31,200 C
103    Hale Woodruff, Yellow Landscape, oil on canvas, 1970-77                        $26,400 D
62   Bob Thompson, Echo and Narcissus, acrylic on paper, mounted on masonite, 1965                $26,400 C
54    Norman Lewis, Many Faces of Legend II, oil on canvas, 1960                        $24,000 C
98    Elizabeth Catlett, Portrait, polished, cast bronze, 1972                            $24,000 C
1*    William A. Harper, Untitled (French Landscape), oil on canvas, 1905                    $19,200 I
42    Loïs Mailou Jones, Le Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre, Paris, oil on canvas, circa 1947-49                $16,800 C
130   Benny Andrews, Hustler, collage and oil on paper, 1990                            $14,400 C
34   Haywood “Bill” Rivers, Untitled (Woman in Armchair, Smoking Pipe), oil on canvas, circa 1948-50        $13,200 D
93   Romare Bearden, The Family, color aquatint and photo engraving, 1975                    $11,400 I
28   Charles White, El Pensador (The Thinker), lithograph, 1946                        $9,600 I

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