May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Douglas, Emory; artist. Prime Minister of Colonized Afro-America. Poster, 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches; moderate dampstaining, light wrinkling, staple holes in corners, tape remnants on verso. [Oakland, CA]: [Black Panther Party], [September 1968]

Additional Details

Features a portrait of Stokely Carmichael holding a gun, with his quotation: "We Must Have Undying Love For Our People." Made from one of "the first drawings that Douglas made as he transitioned from the Black Arts Movement to the Black Panther Party"--Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, page 179. None traced at auction, and one in OCLC (at Yale University).