“For Beauford’s work leads the inner and outer eye, directly and inexorably, to a new confrontation with reality. At this moment one begins to apprehend the nature of his triumph. And the beauty of his triumph, and the proof that he is a real one, is that he makes it ours.”
—James Baldwin
- Provenance
  Sacks Fine Art, Inc., New York
  Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above)
  Thence by descent to the present owner

Property from an Important Private Collection, West Coast

210

Beauford Delaney

Untitled

signed, dedicated and dated "Bon Noel Pour Monsieur Ballois avec amitié Dec 1961 Beauford Delaney 58" lower right
oil on paper
24 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (61.6 x 50.2 cm)
Painted in 1958.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000

Sold for $57,150

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