Jun 04, 2020 - Sale 2535

Sale 2535 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012)
I Am the Black Woman.

Color linoleum cut on wove paper, 1947. 130x86 mm; 5 1/8x3 7/8 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the numbered edition of 20. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin. Printed at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, New York, in 1989.

I Am the Black Woman was first printed in 1946-1947 in an edition of 20, under the series title I Am the Negro Woman. The series was reprinted by the artist in 1989 with the updated title I Am the Black Woman.