Portrait of a Woman Sold by Black Art Auction

Black Art Auction offered Beauford's Portrait of a Woman, c. 1970 at its Timed Summer Auction.

Lot 11
(c. 1970) Portrait of a Woman
Oil monoprint on paper (unique)
24 x 19-1/2 in.
unsigned
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

The work proposed is quite similar in form to the one pictured below.

Untitled (Woman in an Abstract Field)
(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
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

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.

Portrait of a Woman is dated c. 1970, but it is entirely possible that he created it at the same time he painted Untitled (Woman in an Abstract Field)

Its estimated sale price was $15,000 - $20,000.

The work sold for $13,000, including a 25% buyer's premium.