Thomas Sills Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Thomas Sills Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 03, 2024
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) She.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) She. Oil on linen canvas, 1965, 1016x762 mm; 40x30 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Also signed, titled, dated and inscribed "40x30" on the artist's handwritten labels stapled to the stretcher bars. Provenance: private collection. In the 1960s, Thomas Sills showed with Bodley Gallery, New York. He was also the subject of solo exhibitions at Creighton University, Omaha, NE in and the Art Association of Newport, RI. In 1965, his painting Landlocked, 1960, was exhibited in Recent Acquistions: Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Another Sills painting from 1965, Green Delta is in the collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 19, 2024
Thomas SILLS (1914-2000) African - American
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Thomas SILLS (1914-2000) ; Untitled abstract ; oil on canvas / framed ; dimensions 91 x 91 cm (36 x 36 in.) ; frame size 94,5 x 94,5 cm (37 1/4 x 37 1/4 in.) ; signed middle bottom ; Shipping to USA - DHL $835 , National post with tracking service $525 / Shipping to EU, Middle Assia - DHL $645 , National post with tracking service $475
Art-Torg
Jun. 09, 2023
Thomas SILLS (1914-2000) African - American
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Thomas SILLS (1914-2000) ; Untitled ; c. 1970s ; oil on canvas, benzine / unframed ; dimensions 89 x 76,5 cm (35 x 30 in.) ; signed lower right ; Shipping to USA - DHL $550 , National post with tracking service $350 / Shipping to EU, Russia, Middle Assia - DHL $420 , National post with tracking service $280
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May. 20, 2023
Thomas Sills, 1914-2000, untitled
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
Thomas Sills 1914-2000 untitled c. 1960-1970 acrylic on canvas 44 x 50 inches signed Provenance: private collection, Sheffield, Ohio
Black Art Auction
Oct. 14, 2022
Thomas SILLS (1914-2000) African - American
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Thomas SILLS (1914-2000) ; Untitled ; c. 1970s ; oil on canvas, benzine / unframed ; dimensions 89 x 76,5 cm (35 x 30 in.) ; signed lower right ; Shipping to USA - DHL $550 , National post with tracking service $350 / Shipping to EU, Russia, Middle Assia - DHL $420 , National post with tracking service $280
Art-Torg
Mar. 31, 2022
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) Untitled (Abstraction in Black).
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) Untitled (Abstraction in Black). Oil on linen canvas, circa 1958-59. 1016x1245 mm; 40x49 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection (1986.) A similar black painting entitled Forest1958 which was shown in Thomas Sills - Painting, the artist's 1959 solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery. Additionally, another Burnt Forest by Sills was lent by Betty Parsons to a 1959 University of Colorado Exhibition of Paintings, 12th Annual Creative Arts Program.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 10, 2020
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) New Born.
Est: $50,000 - $75,000
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) New Born. Oil on cotton canvas, 1958. 1092x1245 mm; 43x49 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: gift from the artist; private collection, New York.. Exhibited: Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, January 26 - February 14, 1959. New Born is a richly layered and significant painting by this important but often overlooked abstract painter. Its radiating spiral composition of lush red and violet forms epitomizes Thomas Sills experimental approach to painting. By the late 1950s, Sills was using a limited palette of two colors, and collapsed the figure ground relationship. His approach in New Born embodies the important mid-century transition from Abstract Expressionism to color field painting made by many leading abstract painters in the late 1950s. Born in Castalia, North Carolina, the youngest of eleven children, Thomas Sills came to work in Harlem as a young man in the late 1920s. Upon moving to Greenwich Village in the late 1940s, Sills met Jeanne Reynal, the mosaicist and Surrealist. They married and Reynal introduced him to a wide range of artists from Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst to Willem De Kooning and Mark Rothko. Self-taught, Sills began to paint abstraction with various media beginning in the early 1950s. His career in New York was launched in 1955 with a solo exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery. He would go on to have three more solo exhibitions at Betty Parsons in 1957, 1959 and 1961, and solo exhibitions at Bodley Gallery in New York into the 1970s. Sills has been included in numerous group exhibitions - from the 1972 Contemporary Black Art in America at the Whitney Museum of American Art to the 1991 The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-1975 at Kenkeleba House, New York. Sills's work today is found in numerous museum collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as numerous private collections. Fine pp. 158-160.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 14, 2020
Thomas Sills, 1914-2000, Untitled (Abstract), Oil and benzene on paperboard, 22 x 30 inches
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Thomas Sills 1914-2000 Untitled (Abstract) Oil and benzene on paperboard c. 1950 Signed. African American abstract expressionist artist Thomas Sills was born in Castalia, North Carolina in 1914 and began painting in 1952 at the age of 38. In 1957 he won the prestigious William and Noma Copley Foundation Award and held solo exhibitions at the Betty Parsons Gallery, NY; Paul Kantor Gallery, CA; and Bodley Gallery, NY. His work was also included in many group exhibitions including the Fourth Annual Artists Annual at Stable Gallery, NY. The Stable Gallery was the center of Abstract Expressionism in New York City in the 1950â€™s and home to artists Robert Indiana, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Willem deKooning, Andy Warhol, and Lee Krasner. 22 x 30 inches
Black Art Auction
May. 16, 2020
Thomas Sills, 1914 - 2000, Signal, Oil and benzene on canvas, 48 x 50 inches
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Thomas Sills 1914 - 2000 Signal Oil and benzene on canvas 1963 Signed Titled verso Possibly exhibited at Jeanne Reynal and Thomas Sills at the New School for Social Research, NY, 1963. 48 x 50 inches
Black Art Auction
May. 16, 2020
Thomas Sills, 1914 - 2000, Pleasant, Oil and benzene on canvas, 42 x 49 inches
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Thomas Sills 1914 - 2000 Pleasant Oil and benzene on canvas 1966 Signed Literature: "Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture by Afro-American Artists", Wilmington, DE, 1971; Presented by Aesthetics Dynamics. "The Melvin Holmes Collection of African American Art", Tyler Fine Art, 2019, p. 111. "Selections from the Melvin Holmes Collection of African American Art", Tyler Fine Art, 2019, p. 79. 42 x 49 inches
Black Art Auction
Jan. 30, 2020
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) Red Berries.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) Red Berries. Oil on canvas, 1959. 2134x1651 mm; 69x65 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago. Exhibited: Thomas Sills, Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, May 14 - June 2, 1962; Thomas Sills, Paintings: 1953 - 1963, Bodley Gallery, New York, NY, March 3 - 14, 1964; A Johnson Publishing Story, Stony Island Art Bank, Chicago, June 28, 2018 – September 30, 2018; Theaster Gates: Assembly Hall, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, September 5, 2019 – January 12, 2020. Illustrated: Artforum, July, 1962. Red Berries is a significant painting of this important but often overlooked abstract painter. Thomas Sills's paintings are characterized by layers of lush color with a variety of richly textured applications. His Red Berries embodies the transitional move between Abstract Expressionism and color field painting in the late 1950s. Born in Castalia, North Carolina, the youngest of eleven children, Thomas Sills came to work in Harlem as a young man in the late 1920s. Upon moving to Greenwich Village in the late 1940s, Sills met Jeanne Reynal, the mosaicist and Surrealist. They married and Reynal introduced him to the New York art scene. Self-taught, Sills began to paint abstraction with various media beginning in the early 1950s. His career in New York was launched in 1955 with a solo exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery. He would go on to have three more solo exhibitions at Betty Parsons in 1957, 1959 and 1961, and solo exhibitions at Bodley Gallery in New York into the 1970s. Sills has been included in numerous group exhibitions - from the 1972 Contemporary Black Art in America at the Whitney Museum of American Art to the 1991 The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-1975 at Kenkeleba House, New York. Sills's work today is found in numerous museum collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as numerous private collections. Fine pp. 158-160.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 01, 2014
Abstract Expressionist Painting Thomas Sills
Est: $200 - $300
Measures 6"x7" framed Signed T.Sills, for Thomas Sills
Kenneth Hutter Auction Company, Inc.
Jun. 01, 2014
Abstract Expressionist Painting Thomas Sills
Est: $800 - $1,200
Signed T. Sills, for Thomas Sills Height 18" Width 18.5"
Kenneth Hutter Auction Company, Inc.
Apr. 27, 2014
Abstract Expressionist Painting Thomas Sills
Est: $200 - $300
Measures 6"x7" framed Signed T.Sills, for Thomas Sills
Kenneth Hutter Auction Company, Inc.
Apr. 27, 2014
Abstract Expressionist Painting Thomas Sills
Est: $800 - $1,200
Signed T. Sills, for Thomas Sills Height 18" Width 18.5"
Kenneth Hutter Auction Company, Inc.
Jul. 28, 2011
THOMAS SILLS, (AMERICAN 1914-2000), "MY DOLL"
Est: $800 - $1,200
THOMAS SILLS (american 1914-2000)/span "MY DOLL" Signed bottom right, oil and mixed media on panel in artist's frame 35 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. provenance: /spanBetty Parsons Gallery, New York, New York.
Freeman's | Hindman
Feb. 06, 2009
THOMAS ALBERT SILLS (American, 1914-2000) "BLUE JAY".
Est: $600 - $800
Modern abstract oil? shows a stylized bluejay on a branch with the yellow sun background against a blue sky. Similar to an enamel like process. Signed lower right "T Sills". Housed in a modern gold edged frame. SIZE: 15-1/4" x 12". CONDITION: Very good. 9-95683
James D. Julia