Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Property from the Collection of Stanley and Mikki Weithorn

Faith Ringgold

American People Series #7: The Cocktail Party

Session begins in

November 21, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Stanley and Mikki Weithorn

Faith Ringgold

1930 - 2024


American People Series #7: The Cocktail Party

signed and partially titled (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

42 by 24 in.

106.7 by 61 cm.

Executed in 1964.

The artist

ACA Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above in October 1996 by the present owner

Lisa Farrington, Art On Fire: The Politics of Race and Sex in the Paintings of Faith Ringgold, New York, 1999, pp. 129-130, illustrated

Faith Ringgold, We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold, Durham & London, 2005, p. 151, illustrated and p. 148 and 153

Bridget R. Cooks, Faith Ringgold: American People, New York, 2022, p. 124

Purchase College, Neuberger Museum of Art, American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s, September - December 2010, no. 20, p. 76, illustrated in color