Feb 17, 2009 - Sale 2169

Sale 2169 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 6,720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
The Builders.

Color screenprint on wove paper, 1974. 762x562 mm; 30x22 1/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 57/300 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, with the blind stamp lower right. Published by IBM Corporation, New York. Time stain. A very good impression with vibrant and bright colors.

This print was based on the painting chosen for the exhibition and cover of the artist's 1974 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Nesbett L74-1.