Beauford Delaney - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Tuesday, May 16, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “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

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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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 16 May 2023