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Lot 6: ABSTRACT COMPOSITION.

Est: €300 EUR - €400 EURSold:
Arenberg AuctionsBrussels, BelgiumMarch 25, 2021

Item Overview

Description

Drawing, watercolour and gouache, 24 x 15 cm, paper (?), signed in pencil at lower right. - Abstract composition by the African-American artist Charles Alston (1907-1977). By the mid-1950s Alston began creating notably modernist style paintings with rich colours. Only after 1959 he began working in black and white, which he continued up until the mid-1960s, as a response to the Civil Rights Movement and the sufferings of the African-American population.

Artist or Maker

Date

Ca. 1955-1960

Condition Report

Under passe-partout and frame (not studied outside frame).

Payment & Shipping

Accepted forms of payment: Wire Transfer

Shipping

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Auction Details

D1 - Modern Drawings and Engravings

by
Arenberg Auctions
March 25, 2021, 01:00 PM CET

Wolstraat 19/2, Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, 1000, BE

Terms

Buyer's Premium

25.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
€0€49€5
€50€199€10
€200€399€20
€400€999€50
€1,000€1,999€100
€2,000€3,999€200
€4,000€9,999€500
€10,000€19,999€1,000
€20,000€69,999€2,000
€70,000+€5,000

Auction - Terms of sale

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Shipping Terms

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