Apr 14, 2022 - Sale 2601

Sale 2601 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
DANNY LYON (1942- )
John Lewis in Cambridge, MD. Silver print, the image measuring 8 3/4x12 3/4 inches (22.2x32.4 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (28x35.6 cm.), with Lyon's signature, title, negative date, and the notations "1 of 2 printed" and "never published" in pencil on verso. 1964; printed circa 2010

WITH--A signed SNCC poster "IS HE PROTECTING YOU? / STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE," Lincoln Lithograph Company, Atlanta, measuring14x22 inches (35.6x55.9 cm.), with Lyon's signature, date, and the notation "used to reproduce p.196 of The 7th Dog (Phaidon)" in pencil. Circa 1963

Additional Details

This is one of a series of five Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee posters featuring the work of important civil rights photographer, Danny Lyon, while he was staff photographer for the committee.