Mar 20, 2025 - Sale 2697

Sale 2697 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Emory Douglas. Untitled print of a mother with rifle slung over her shoulder. Lithograph, 22¾ x 8½ inches, signed in the image "Emory"; horizontal fold, tack holes, cello tape stains; untrimmed. San Francisco, CA, circa 1967

Additional Details

A barefoot mother holds a baby and carries a rifle slung over her back. "The original drawing for this poster was made in 1966 before Douglas joined the Black Panther Party"--"Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas," page 18. It was later used to illustrate the poster for his October 1967 Revolutionary Art Exhibition. We have not offered this one before at auction.