Title: AFRICAN-AMERICAN FINE ART
Date: October 7, 2008
Time: 2:30 PM
Exhibition: Wednesday, October 1, 10-6
Thursday, October 2, 10-6
Friday, October 3, 10-6
Saturday, October 4, 10-4
Monday, October 6, 10-6
Tuesday, October 7, 10-noon
Contact Person: Nigel Freeman
nfreeman@swanngalleries.com

Among the highlights of the African-American Fine Art sale were Aaron Douglas's set of 4 woodcuts, Emperor Jones, 1926 (see top illustration), $22,800. Other lots of intrigue were Charles White's Frederick Douglass Lives Again (The Ghost of Frederick Douglass), pen and ink over pencil on illustration board, 1949 (second illustration), $204,000; Hale Woodruff, The Land of Many Moons, oil on canvas, 1957 (third illustration), $108,000; and Hughie Lee-Smith, The Juggler #1, oil on canvas, circa 1964 (see final illustration), $90,000.