Oct 19, 2023 - Sale 2649

Sale 2649 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
John Brown held Harpers Ferry for 12 hours. His defeat was a few hours off.

Color screenprint on Domestic etching paper, 1977. 356x508 mm; 14x20 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 58/60 and "#20" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, with the blind stamp. Published by The Founders Society of the Detroit Insitute of Art, Detroit. Plate 20 from the portfolio The Legend of John Brown. Nesbett L77-5.