Lot 119: ROBERT REID (1924 - 2002) Solitaire I.

ROBERT REID (1924 - 2002)
Solitaire I.

Oil on canvas and collaged canvas, circa 1967. 915x965 mm; 36x38 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Signed in oil, upper right verso. From the X-O Games series.

Provenance: Grand Central Moderns Gallery, New York, with the gallery label; Goldman Sachs, New York, with the sticker on the stretcher bar; private New York collection.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Robert Reid was both a painter and an art educator. He was a painting instructor at the Summit Art Center in New Jersey and a Professor of Drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1970s. He studied at Clark College, Atlanta, the Parsons School of Design, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago from 1941-1950. His exhibitions include the 1st World Festival of Negro Artists, Dakar, Senegal, 1965, the important Negro in American Art exhibition, UCLA Art Galleries, 1966, Arts in the American Embassies State Department Program, 1967, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem, 1968-69, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971. His work is in the collections of the Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, the University of Notre Dame, Cornell University, Newark Museum, Syracuse University, University of Pennsylvania, and Drew University.