Apartment for Rent 1977-78

ROY DeCARAVA (1919-2009, American)

Apartment for Rent 1977-78

gelatin silver print
14.5 x 21.0 cm (image); 20.5 x 25.5 cm (sheet)
signed verso: [illeg.] CARAVA

edition size unknown

Provenance:
Private collection
Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 31 July 2006, lot 365
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 25 January - 7 May 1996 (label attached verso, another example)
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 27 June - 30 August 2020 (another example)

Reference:
Galassi, P., Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York in association with Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1996. p.72 (illus., another example)

Related Works:
Another example of this work is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Estimate: $4000 - 6000

Result Hammer: $3600

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