Passed
Est
$500,000
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$700,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Robert Colescott
Size
84 1/4 x 72 1/4 in. (214 x 183.5 cm)
Description
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1991.
Provenance
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr.
Alexandre Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings, exh. cat., The United States Pavilion 47th Venice Biennale, Tucson, 1997, p. 8 (titled Death of the Old Mulatta)
Udo Kultermann, "Reconstitución pictórica de la historia negra: La obra de Robert Colescott," Goya, no. 259-260, July-October 1997, no. 13, p. 498 (illustrated, p. 500; titled The Death of an Old Mulatta)
David C. Driskell, ed., The Other Side of Color: African American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr., Rohnert Park, 2001, pl. 75, pp. 143, 179, 209, 211 (illustrated, p. 142; titled Death of a Mulatto Woman)
Holland Cotter, "Continents in Conversation," The New York Times, November 7, 2014, p. C32 (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., 2014, installation view illustrated; titled Death of a Mulatto Woman)
Philip Kennicott, “Cosby art collection chooses calm over anger,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 2014, online (titled Death of a Mulatto Woman)
Juliette Harris, "Redemption Song. Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr., Washington, DC, November 9, 2014–Januart 24, 2016," The International Review of African American Art Plus, November 2014, online (illustrated; titled Death of a Mulatto Woman)
Victoria L. Valentine, “Culture Type: The Year in Black Art 2014,” Culture Type, December 27, 2014, online (illustrated; titled Death of a Mulatto Woman)
"Power and Politics. Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue," Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2014, online (illustrated)
Richard J. Powell, Going There: Black Visual Satire, New Haven and London, 2020, fig. 112, pp. 197, 224 (illustrated, p. 189; titled Death of a Mulatto Woman)
Chloe Wyma, "Robert Colescott: Venus over Manhattan," Artforum, February 2023, p. 140 (titled Death of a Mulatto Woman)
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr., November 9, 2014–January 24, 2016, figs. 40, 78, pl. 69, p. 256 (detail illustrated, pp. 42, 133; illustrated, p. 151; titled Death of a Mulatto Woman)
New York, Venus over Manhattan, Robert Colescott: Women, November 15, 2022–January 7, 2023