Apr 04, 2019 - Sale 2504

Sale 2504 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
General Toussaint L'Ouverture.

Color screenprint on Bainbridge Two Ply Rag paper, 1986. 721x470 mm; 28 3/8x18 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 33/100 in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA, with the blind stamp lower left.

General Toussaint L'Ouverture is based on the 20th image from Lawrence's original series of 41 paintings from 1938. It is also the most sought-after screenprint from the series of 15 made between 1986-97. Nesbett L86-2.