Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR.) RAY, JAMES EARL. Escape from Brushy Mountain. Oil painting on artist's board, 12x16 inches, [together with] a Typed Note Signed by Ray, attesting to the authenticity of this painting and added to a typed letter concerning one of his several appeals. Single sheet of State of Tennessee Board of Paroles stationery, dated 9 June, 1986. Two creases where folded. Nashville, Station-State Farm Prison, 1986
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Apparently short of stationery, Ray's note regarding the authenticity of this painting was added to the bottom of a letter Ray had received refusing him a hearing for clemency.