Oct 18, 2012 - Sale 2290

Sale 2290 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
Olympic Games.

Color screenprint on Schoellers Parole Paper, 1971. 873x645 mm; 34 3/8x25 3/8 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 69/200 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Dietz Offizin, Lengmoos, Germany. Published by Bruckmann Verlag + Druck, Munich. A very good, bright impression.

We have only found two other examples of this print at auction in the past 20 years. Nesbett L71-1.

Jacob Lawrence was one of 28 artists commissioned for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games to design a print commemorating the event, which bears Olympische Spiele Munchen 1972, the official symbol of the Munich rings.