On June 28, 2023, the Delon-Hoebanx auction house offered a Beauford Delaney abstract during its TABLEAUX - MOBILIER & OBJETS D'ART - MÉDAILLES - ARTS D'ASIE - ORFÈVRERIE - ARTS DU XXE SIÈCLE sale.
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated at lower right
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
They went so far as to use an image of the work as the cover for their catalog.
The signature on this work is almost illegible. But it appears that the date is "61" and that "San" is the first word in the notation that Beauford wrote beneath his name.
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated at lower right
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
As mentioned in last week's blog post, Beauford created several watercolors when he visited San Telmo, Mallorca with friends in 1961. The work offered by Delon-Hoebanx may well be one of them.
The visit to the seaside town of San Telmo was meant to provide Beauford with healing time after his suicide attempt earlier in the summer. For me, this blue and orange abstraction evokes the sand (orange), the sea (blue and green), and the suspension of the haze of mental confusion and stress (purple).
The estimated sale price of Abstraction bleue et orange was 20,000€ - 30,000€. It sold for 22,000€ (hammer price).
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