Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CARRIE MAE WEEMS (1953 - )
Commemorating Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. for defying every expectation

of what a black man should be and wasn't.

Lenox porcelain, glazed and gold painted, 1992. 267 mm; 10 1/2 inches diameter.

Other commemorative plates from this series are in the collection of the Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Hartford, CT and the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE.