Oct 03 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2680 -

Sale 2680 - Lot 224

Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
FAITH RINGGOLD (1930 - 2024)
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 51/75 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.