Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 422

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MUSIC.) HERON, GIL SCOTT. Gil Scott Heron. Brian Jackson the Midnight Band, Grand Theft. Original pen and brush black ink artwork for a poster, 22 x 14 inches, done on a sheet of some sort of semi-opaque plastic. San Francisco, 1975

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Gil Scott-Heron, poet, filmmaker, rapper, and "bluesologist" (1949-2011). He is credited with being one of the earliest innovators in the realm of Hip Hop, influenced by the Last Poets. It was Heron who famously said "The Revolution Will Not be Televised."