Apr 04, 2024 - Sale 2664

Sale 2664 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
FAITH RINGGOLD (1930 - )
Letter From Birmingham City Jail.

Portfolio with 8 color screenprints, 2007. Each 432x349 mm; 17¾x13¾ inches (sheet), loose as issued.

Edition of 75 numbered copies. Each signed, dated and numbered 46/75 in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Limited Editions Club, New York. In the original burgundy fabric covered clamshell box and afterword by Dr. C. T. Vivian.

Titles include: A Letter From Martin Luther King * Four Little Girls Bombed in a Church * For Whites Only * Brown Versus Board of Education 1954 * The Right to Vote * Police Brutality Viewed Thru Stained Glass Windows * Slavery * Montgomery Bus Boycott.

These eight color screenprints illustrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous letter.