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Glenn Ligon(B. 1960)Study for Negro Sunshine #76, 2011
15 February 2020, 12:00 PST
Los AngelesSold for US$30,075 inc. premium
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Glenn Ligon (B. 1960)
Study for Negro Sunshine #76, 2011
signed, titled and dated 'Study for Negro Sunshine #76 2011 Glenn Ligon' (on the reverse)
oilstick, coal dust and gesso on paper
12 x 9 in.
30.5 x 22.9 cm.
signed, titled and dated 'Study for Negro Sunshine #76 2011 Glenn Ligon' (on the reverse)
oilstick, coal dust and gesso on paper
12 x 9 in.
30.5 x 22.9 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Salon 94, New York
Sale: Phillips, New York, Contemporary Art Day Sale, 15 May 2015, lot 271
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
"Rose Johnson was a real black negress. Rose laughed when she was happy but she had not the wide abandoned laughter that makes the warm broad glow of negro sunshine. Rose was never joyous with the earth-born, boundless joy of negroes. Hers was just ordinary, any sort of woman laughter." -Gertrude Stein, from the novella Melanctha in Three Lives, 1909