African American Art at Swann April 22
NEW YORK, New York
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Richmond Barthé, African Boy Dancing, cast bronze with dark brown patina, 1937. Estimate $150,000 to $250,000.
African American Art will take place on
Thursday, April 22. The sale will present quality works spanning mediums and movements within the canon.
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance feature in the sale, with a run of works by
Richmond Barthé and prints by Aaron Douglas.
African Boy Dancing, 1937, is an important and strikingly beautiful bronze by Barthé; which represents the culmination of the artistâs significant study of the male figure in sculpture, anatomy and African dance in the 1930s, and his pioneering realization of an ideal male nude. This is the first time this sculpture has come to auction, and only the second time that an original 1930s cast by Barthé has appeared at auction. The sculpture is expected to bring $150,
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