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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Beauford at Swann Auction Galleries: June 2014 Sale

Swann Auction Galleries is having a summer sale of African American Fine Art this year. Called "The Shape of Things to Come," it will take place at 2:30 PM on Tuesday, June 10, 2014.

Two Beauford Delaney paintings will be auctioned at the event. One is abstract and the other is figurative.

The abstract painting (Lot 16) is untitled. Affixed to card stock, it is signed and dated in ink on the mount at the lower left. It comes to the auction block from a private collection in New York.

Untitled (Abstract composition)
(1958) Oil on wove paper
750x560 mm; 29 1/2x22 inches
Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

The estimated value of this work is $10000 - $15000.

Gaggame (Lot 62) is a watercolor on thin wove paper. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "France" in blue ink and ball point pen at the lower right, it also comes to auction from a private collection in New York.

Gaggame
(1969) Watercolor on wove paper
240x320 mm; 9 3/8x12 1/2 inches
Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

The estimated value of this work is $5000 - $7000.

For more information, contact Alaina McEachin at .

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