Mar 24, 2022 - Sale 2598

Sale 2598 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BLACK POWER.) George 8X Stewart, artist. Endurance. Poster, 24 x 18 inches; minimal wear. Not examined out of modern frame (could be easily removed). Huntsville, AL and New York: Blackness Incorporated, circa 1975

Additional Details

A complex pictorial poster with Angela Davis in the center, surrounded by various other figures in the black power struggle: Huey Newton, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and more, together with a quote from the Declaration of Independence and a quote from Che Guevara. Publication credits include Blackness Incorporated, Afrikan American Art Publishing Co., Mighty African Kings and Queens, Great Great Grandchildren Publishing Co., and Culture Task Force (its Southern Division in Huntsville, AL, and its Northern Division in New York). Swann sold another poster featuring this same artwork but no caption or publication credits on 10 March 2011, lot 201. We can trace no other examples of either poster at auction or in OCLC.