Feb 17, 2011 - Sale 2237

Sale 2237 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
Schomburg Library.

Color lithograph on Arches paper, 1986. 660x508 mm; 26x20 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 163/200 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by JK Fine Art Editions, Union City, NJ, with the blind stamp lower left. Published by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York. A very good, bright impression.

The Schomburg Center published this print for its 60th anniversary. Lawrence conducted research for many of his paintings at this branch--formerly known as the 135th Street Public Library. We have found only one other impression of this print at auction in the past 20 years. Nesbett L87-1.