May 12, 2016 - Sale 2415

Sale 2415 - Lot 257

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DAVID HOCKNEY (after)
The Prisoner for Amnesty International
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Offset color lithograph, 1977. 735x600 mm; 29x23 5/8 inches, full margins. The deluxe, pencil-signed edition of 100, aside from the unsigned edition of 2000. Signed and numbered 64/100 in pencil, lower margin.

One of a series of art posters created by 15 artists to focus on Amnesty International's Prisoners of Conscience Year 1977. The posters were exhibited between February and March of 1977 in the Washington Place windows of New York University's Grey Art Gallery. Baggott 56.