Feb 26, 2004 - Sale 1998

Sale 1998 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 518
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
FROM THE LIBRARY OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (Gellert, Hugo.) Negro Songs of Protest. Compiled by Lawrence Gellert and arranged for voice and piano by Elie Siegmeister. Illustrations by Hugo Gellert. Small 4to, original wrappers, few short tears at edges; Signed by Lawrence Gellert on the title; bookplate and estate stamp of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York, (1936)

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Hugo Gellert was one of the best-knwon artists of the school of "social realism," using his talents defending civil rights in numerous left-wing publications in the 1930s and 1940s.