ROBERT COLESCOTT, PAINTING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER SET TO BREAK ARTIST’S AUCTION RECORD. It will be sold at auction next month in May of 2021. The painting will be offered with a guarantee during Sotheby’s contemporary art evening sale on May 12, where it is expected to achieve a price of $9 million–$12 million— far above the artist’s auction record of $912,500, which was set in November 2018. Colescott art work with Black figures representing racist tropes that have been used throughout American history. If the painting reaches its high estimate, it will rank among the few works by contemporary Black artists that have achieved an auction price above $10 million.
