May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Douglas, Emory; artist. One of Our Main Purposes is to Unify Our Brothers and Sisters in the North with Our Brothers and Sisters in the South. Poster, 22 3/4 x 15 inches, in black on newsprint; horizontal fold, minor wear including a light corner fold, tape remnants on verso. San Francisco, CA: [Black Panther Party], circa 1969

Additional Details

One of the more enduring images by Douglas. An alternate newspaper version featured the man standing alone, wearing a button which read "For every pork chop there is a frying pan" (see The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, page 89). In this version, he stands with other revolutionaries and the button has a photograph of Ericka Huggins.