Feb 16, 2012 - Sale 2268

Sale 2268 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CARRIE MAE WEEMS (1953 - )
Three Commemorating Porcelain Plates.

Commemorating Harlem Watts Detroit & Oakland * Commemorating Blues, Jazz, Collard Greens & Thelonius Monk * Commemorating Harriet Tubman for being willing to take even her husband's woman to freedom. Each 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.