Oct 06, 2016 - Sale 2424

Sale 2424 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012)
Celie.

Lithograph on Arches wove paper, 1986. 595x405 mm; 23 1/2x16 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 69/80 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, New York, with the blind stamp lower right.

Catlett was commissioned to make Celie, Virginia and Cartas for the opening of the film The Color Purple.