Thursday, October 19th, 2023
African American Art
Sale #2649
Auction will feature exceptional modern and contemporary works of abstract and figurative art.
The top lot in the auction is Moon Madness, an important 1959 processional painting by Norman Lewis. It is one of a significant series of nocturnal compositions made by the artist in the late fifties.
Other sale highlights are two paintings from 1954. Hughie Lee-Smith’s Untitled (Two Young Men on a Beach) is an evocative oil painting that epitomizes the artist’s career-defining body of work of surreal landscapes from Detroit.
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Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY
