Two Beauford Delaney portraits are being offered at auction this month.
Portrait of a Bearded Young Man is part of Swann Auction Galleries' LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History auction, which will take place on August 21, 2025.
Portrait of a Bearded Young Man Reading
(1971-72) Oil on linen canvas
64.8 x 54 cm.; 25 1/2x21 1/4 inches.
Signed and dated in pencil, lower edge (twice)
Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
To my knowledge, this is the first time Swann is offering a Beauford Delaney work in a sale whose theme is not African-American artists.
The estimated sale price is $20,000 - $30,000.
For more information about this auction, click HERE.
Black Art Auction is offering Beauford's Portrait of a Woman, c. 1970 at its Timed Summer Auction.
The work being proposed is quite similar to the one pictured below.
(1966) Oil monotype, with hand-painted additions in oil,
on cream wove paper
Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
The Wells International Foundation's 2016 intern, Sojourner Ahébée, wrote a poem inspired by this work.
Les Amis published the poem on August 27, 2016.
The estimated sale price for Portrait of a Woman is $15,000 - $20,000.
For more information about this sale, click HERE.
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