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KNIGHT, HILARY. B.1926.
An original ink and gold paint sketch for "The Dance Theatre of Harlem"

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

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KNIGHT, HILARY. B.1926.

An original ink and gold paint sketch for "The Dance Theatre of Harlem" for a poster for the four week run at The Theater at Davis Hall/CCNY, March 10-April 5, 1987, ink and gold paint, 740 x 470 mm, on two sheets, affixed, signed and dated in gold lower right "Hilary Knight 1986;"
WITH: printed poster for same, color lithograph in black and gold, 865 x 540 mm, matted.

This second season of Arthur Mitchell's dance company at Davis Hall was called "Harlem Homecoming 2." The program comprised the company's first production of Jerome Robbins' American classic, Fancy Free; Footprints Dressed in Red, a new work choreographed by Garth Fagan; and John Taras's reinterpretation of the Stravinsky Firebird. Mr. Knight blocked out "HARLEM" on a separate sheet of thin paper and then attached it to the larger drawing.

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