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Auction archive: Lot number 95

INSCRIBED BY LOCKE (ART.) Locke, Alain

Estimate
US$500 - US$750
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 95

INSCRIBED BY LOCKE (ART.) Locke, Alain

Estimate
US$500 - US$750
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

INSCRIBED BY LOCKE (ART.) Locke, Alain. Negro Art: Past and Present. [6], 122 pages. 8vo, publisher's pictorial boards, minimal wear; minimal wear to contents; signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Washington: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936
First edition of the first substantial study of African-American artists, written by the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. It was printed as part of the Bronze Booklet series. It is inscribed "For Stefan Hirsch in cordial friendship, Alain Locke, 1941" to a well-known German-American artist who was then teaching at the Art Students League of New York. Blockson 8100 (describing a later re ... First edition of the first substantial study of African-American artists, written by the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. It was printed as part of the Bronze Booklet series. It is inscribed "For Stefan Hirsch in cordial friendship, Alain Locke, 1941" to a well-known German-American artist who was then teaching at the Art Students League of New York. Blockson 8100 (describing a later reprint).

Auction archive: Lot number 95
Auction:
Datum:
7 May 2020
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

INSCRIBED BY LOCKE (ART.) Locke, Alain. Negro Art: Past and Present. [6], 122 pages. 8vo, publisher's pictorial boards, minimal wear; minimal wear to contents; signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Washington: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936
First edition of the first substantial study of African-American artists, written by the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. It was printed as part of the Bronze Booklet series. It is inscribed "For Stefan Hirsch in cordial friendship, Alain Locke, 1941" to a well-known German-American artist who was then teaching at the Art Students League of New York. Blockson 8100 (describing a later re ... First edition of the first substantial study of African-American artists, written by the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. It was printed as part of the Bronze Booklet series. It is inscribed "For Stefan Hirsch in cordial friendship, Alain Locke, 1941" to a well-known German-American artist who was then teaching at the Art Students League of New York. Blockson 8100 (describing a later reprint).

Auction archive: Lot number 95
Auction:
Datum:
7 May 2020
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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