Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
AN ORIGINAL PRINT BY EMORY (BLACK PANTHERS.) DOUGLAS, EMORY. Free Bobby, Free Ericka, Free Ruchell Magee, Free Angela, Free Kathleen, and All Political Prisoners. Shoot to Kill. Original color print by Emory Douglas, signed in pen in the lower left corner, and inscribed in pencil on the reverse. Oakland, circa 1970

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A striking original print by the Panthers' minister of Culture Emory Douglas. Douglas worked as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. His graphic art was featured in most issues of the newspaper The Black Panther (which had a peak circulation of 139,000 per week in 1970) has become an iconic representation of the struggles of the Party during the 1960s and 70s. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Douglas "branded the militant-chic Panther image decades before the concept became commonplace. He used the newspaper's popularity to incite the disenfranchised to action, portraying the poor with genuine empathy, not as victims but as outraged, unapologetic and ready for a fight."