15th Jun, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

Modern & Contemporary Art

 
  Lot 651
 

651

Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932 - 2007)
"Truman in the White House" (1966)
Signed and numbered 68/70, screenprint, 59cm by 82cm

Sold for £350
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

Cockling to the paper. Slight time staining in evidence to the margins with the odd sporadic small sized scattered foxing spot. 

The print appears to have been rolled at some point? Areas of fine craquelure to the background in places, in particular to the black left and right of centre top edge, to the white line down the centre, to the left white line and within areas of the black within the lower section. 


Not examined out of the frame.

 


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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 15th Jun, 2024

“Woman with a Sewing Machine”, a rare early lithograph made by a 17-year-old David Hockney, is to lead the Modern and Contemporary Art Sale on 15th June. The lithograph, which is one of approximately five proof versions of this unpublished print, is being sold by the descendants of Hockney’s school friend and fellow artist David George Fawcett (1935-1973). One of the other proof copies is held in the collection of the Tate.

The sale will also include a group of four works by mining artist Tom McGuinness. The works were purchased directly from the artist by lifelong friend of the artist Sidney Lockey, the pair having first met at school in Witton Park.

Also on offer will be works by the likes of Anne Isabella Brooke, John Hoyland, Damien Hirst and Philip Naviasky.

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