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NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled (Green and Brown Abstraction).
Oil on cream wove paper, circa 1950-55. 483x533 mm; 19x21 inches, full margins. Signed and dated
in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; Oral Lovell,Wellesley, MA; thence by descent to the
current owner.
Oral Lovell was a significant collector of Norman Lewis’s works; she was his close friend from 1959 to
1965.They met through a circle of NewYork City artists, including Romare Bearden and Charles Alston.
[5,000/7,000]