Horace Pippin

Lot 148: Horace Pippin (1888-1946)

Name: Horace Pippin (1888-1946)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: wgfiu5kmx5

Est: $80,000 USD - $120,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USMay 18, 2004

Item Overview

Description

The Den
signed 'H.Pippin.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 24 1/4 in. (51.4 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1945.

Artist or Maker

Horace Pippin

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Art Alliance, Horace Pippin Memorial Exhibition, April 8-May 4, 1947, no. 41.

Literature

S. Rodman, Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America, New York, 1947, pp. 22, 65, 86, pl. XXXVII, illustrated.
J.E. Stein, exhibition catalogue, I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993, pp. 118, 201-02, no. 189, illustrated.

Provenance

Mrs. John D.M. Hamilton, Paoli, Pennsylvania
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1985.

Auction Details

Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

Christie's

May 18, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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