Feb 17, 2009 - Sale 2169

Sale 2169 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
Exhibition and Sale Skowhegan School.

Offset color lithograph poster, 1968. 750x515 mm; 29 1/4x20 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition size unknown. A very good impression with strong colors of this scarce poster.

We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 20 years. Not in Nesbett.

Jacob Lawrence taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture eight times, beginning in 1954 and most recently in 1996, and served on the School's Board of Governors for 32 years.