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Lot 180
Sam Middleton (American, 1927-2015), Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Lithograph in colors, 1972, pencil signed, dated, and numbered 68/75, with full margins, unframed.

Sheet size 20 x 25 3/4 in.

Private Collection, Netherlands

Sam Middleton left his native Harlem in New York City to travel the world in the merchant marine. Still a wanderer in mid-1950s, he was gaining recognition abroad as a serious and talented visual artist. Like many American blacks before him, Middleton found some comfort circulating in societies less racially sensitive than the United States. As a result, he became an expatriate and built his career while living in Amsterdam. Middleton has received international critical acclaim for over fifty years. In the United States his works are exhibited in New York's Whitney Museum, at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Overall very good condition and a nice impression; few faint margin smudges and some minor sheet rippling.

$800 - 1,200