Cassius Clay Sr
Odessa Lee Grady Clay
Estimate: 800 - 1.200 USD
Price realised: 1.020 USD
Price realised: 1.020 USD
Description
Odessa Lee Grady Clay
Photograph on canvas of painting by Cassius Clay Sr.
Framed
Muhammad Ali's Father, Cassius Clay Sr. was a talented artist. He made a living painting signs and billboards as well as ecclesiastical paintings in Baptist churches throughout Kentucky. The Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Green Street Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky both feature murals and altarpieces by Cassius Clay Sr. who would often enlist the help of his sons, Cassius Jr. [Muhammad Ali] and Randolph [now Rahaman Ali]. The only known painting by Ali's father of Ali's mother was unfinished at the time of this photograph and still faintly shows the pencil index lines indicating that it was not painted freehand.
Provenance: From the Collection of Rodney Hilton Brown, formerly President of Hilton Fine Arts, Ltd., publisher of Muhammad Ali's limited edition silkscreen prints, 1978.
Literature: BROWN, Rodney Hilton, Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet & Prophet, Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2021, p. 17 (illus.)
Frame: 25 x 20 1/2 in.
Photograph on canvas of painting by Cassius Clay Sr.
Framed
Muhammad Ali's Father, Cassius Clay Sr. was a talented artist. He made a living painting signs and billboards as well as ecclesiastical paintings in Baptist churches throughout Kentucky. The Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Green Street Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky both feature murals and altarpieces by Cassius Clay Sr. who would often enlist the help of his sons, Cassius Jr. [Muhammad Ali] and Randolph [now Rahaman Ali]. The only known painting by Ali's father of Ali's mother was unfinished at the time of this photograph and still faintly shows the pencil index lines indicating that it was not painted freehand.
Provenance: From the Collection of Rodney Hilton Brown, formerly President of Hilton Fine Arts, Ltd., publisher of Muhammad Ali's limited edition silkscreen prints, 1978.
Literature: BROWN, Rodney Hilton, Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet & Prophet, Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2021, p. 17 (illus.)
Frame: 25 x 20 1/2 in.
Auction result well in line with expectations
The work Odessa Lee Grady Clay by Cassius Clay Sr was auctioned at Bonhams in New York in October 2021. The price achieved of USD 1,020.00 (€ 882.96) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as USD 800.00 – 1,200.00. Other works by Cassius Clay Sr have already achieved higher auction prices, for example, in October 2021 the work White Mountains, 1970s was auctioned for USD 1,275.00 (€ 1,103.70).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Die Arbeit Odessa Lee Grady Clay von Cassius Clay Sr kam im Oktober 2021 bei Bonhams in New York zur Auktion. Der dabei erzielte Preis von USD 1.020,00 (€ 882,96) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit USD 800,00 – 1.200,00 angegeben worden. Andere Arbeiten von Cassius Clay Sr konnten bereits höhere Auktionspreise erzielen, so wurde im Oktober 2021 die Arbeit White Mountains, 1970s für USD 1.275,00 (€ 1.103,70) versteigert.
Cassius Clay Sr - Auction history
