Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 312

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MALCOLM X.) Adams, Ovid P.; artist. We Remember Malcolm. Photo-offset poster, 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches, on textured paper; minimal wear. Np, 1967

Additional Details

Unusual poster depiction of the assassination of Malcolm X as Jesus being taken down from the cross. It was registered for copyright on 2 June 1967, with the artist's name there given as Charles Lewis Ovid Paul Adams. Adams (1930-2006) was a New York-born African American who did a similar print in 1967 titled "We Remember Charlie Parker" as well as a 1970 comic book issued in San Francisco titled "The Adventures of Black Eldridge"; he was a Las Vegas resident at the time of his death in 2006. Only one other example known at auction, a proof printing with another poster on verso (Swann, 1 March 2012, lot 350); and one other example known at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.