Crowd At Night (In Detroit), 1964
40 cms (15.75 ins)
Signed and dated 1964 lower left
made in 1964
Lot offered for sale by Waddington's, Toronto at the auction event "American & Modern Art" held on Thu, Feb 27, 2020.
Lot 40
Lot 40
Estimate: CAD $1,200 - $1,800
Realised: CAD $2,700
Realised: CAD $2,700
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Private Collection, Ontario;
Sold Gardner Galleries, London, ON, June 24, 2019, Lot 5673;
Private Collection, Canada
Notes:
Wald studied at Detroit's Cass Tech, Society of Arts and Crafts, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art prior to leaving for New York in 1971. She was a noted New York illustrator whose paintings and collages have appeared in the New York Times and Fortune magazines, as well as on the covers of Business Week and Saturday Review.
In 1960, the Detroit Institute of Arts purchased one of her paintings, "Children On Stilts". In 1963, she studied under Ben Shahn. In 1964, the year this lot was painted, Wald was given a ten-year retrospective exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Michigan.
Waddington's realized a world record price of $3250.00 for Wald's canvas "Night Train, 1994" on 28 February 2019, Lot 74.
Private Collection, Ontario;
Sold Gardner Galleries, London, ON, June 24, 2019, Lot 5673;
Private Collection, Canada
Notes:
Wald studied at Detroit's Cass Tech, Society of Arts and Crafts, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art prior to leaving for New York in 1971. She was a noted New York illustrator whose paintings and collages have appeared in the New York Times and Fortune magazines, as well as on the covers of Business Week and Saturday Review.
In 1960, the Detroit Institute of Arts purchased one of her paintings, "Children On Stilts". In 1963, she studied under Ben Shahn. In 1964, the year this lot was painted, Wald was given a ten-year retrospective exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Michigan.
Waddington's realized a world record price of $3250.00 for Wald's canvas "Night Train, 1994" on 28 February 2019, Lot 74.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Waddington's auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Waddington's auction house for permission to use.