Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
INSCRIBED TO MAYA ANGELOU (ART.) Lawrence, Jacob. ". . . and the migrants kept coming." Pages 102-109. Article disbound from an issue of Fortune Magazine, 14 x 11 inches; first leaf detached and worn, minor wear to the remainder; inscribed by Lawrence on page 103: "For Maya Angelou, Jacob Lawrence 1/9/87." New York, November 1941 and 1987

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This article featured 26 color illustrations from the 60-panel "Exodus" series by artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), in one of the earliest prominent showcases offered to an African-American artist in a white magazine.