May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Douglas, Emory; artist. Untitled portrait of Stokely Carmichael. Silk-screen poster, 17 x 13 inches, printed in red and black on heavy coated stock; minimal wear. [Oakland, CA], circa 1967

Additional Details

The Oakland Museum has another example of this print which they call an "untitled male figure." Carmichael was frequently photographed in these overalls; Douglas offered other Carmichael portraits for sale in his early days as a Black Panther artist (Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, page 179).