Sold for:
$550
$550
LEROY FOSTER (1925 - 93), 1975, 20" X 16", BLACK BASEBALL PLAYER:Player probably played for Chicago or Cleveland. Signed Foster and '75. Leroy Foster was an African American artist active in Detroit, a fine portrait painter (with many European clients) he was most well known in Detroit for public mural commissions, including "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" for the Frederick Douglass Branch of the Detroit Public Library; "Kaleidoscope" for the lobby of Southwest Detroit Hospital, and "Renaissance City," at the old Cass Tech (where in 1986 the picture was vandalized by ink splattering and restored by Foster.)
Auctioneer:
Dumouchelle Art Galleries
Date:
2011-11-13
