Apr 04, 2024 - Sale 2664

Sale 2664 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CAMILLE BILLOPS (1933 - 2019)
Untitled (Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose).

Color offset lithograph, 1992. 762x559 mm; 30x22 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, inscribed "Untitled" "To Elena with my best wishes. Thanks for working on The KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks" and numbered 35/100 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia. From the Minstrel Series.

The lithograph is printed on top of sheet music for the song Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose, 1916, by Raymond Egan and Richard Whiting. Another impression is in the collection of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC, and was included in the exhibition Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop.