Robert Colescott Work Shown at Storied Venice Biennale Pavilion Heads to Auction

Robert Colescott 1989 painting White Boy will be sold at auction this month. The painting will be offered during a contemporary art evening sale at Bonhams Los Angeles headquarters, where it is expected to achieve a price of $800,000–$1.2 million this Friday.
The painting was one of 19 that Colescott showed at the U.S. Pavilion of the 1997 Venice Biennale, which made him the first Black artist to represent the country at the exhibition. The paintings Colescott exhibited there riffed on the