May 03, 2010 - Sale 2213

Sale 2213 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ATTRIBUTED TO EMORY DOUGLAS (DATES UNKNOWN) "IF I SHOULD RETURN, I SHALL KISS YOU." Circa 1969.
23x29 inches, 59x74 cm. John Huggins Free Breakfast Program, New Haven.
Condition B+: loss in upper left margin; pin-holes in corners and in image; tears and creases at edges. Paper.
Douglas was the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers. "He was the party's Revolutionary Artist, graphic designer, illustrator, political cartoonist, and the master craftsman of its visual identity" (Emory p. 94).