Apr 05, 2018 - Sale 2472

Sale 2472 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
The Pentecost.

Color lithograph, 1965. 340x457 mm; 13 3/8x18 inches, full margins. Edition size unknown. Printed by United Church Press, Boston/Philadelphia. Published by United Homeland Ministries, Boston. From Christian Concepts in Art: Seven Original Lithographs.

A group of artists including Jacob Lawrence were comissioned to create a series of lithographs illustrating "seven concepts universal to the Christian faith."

Peter Nesbett states "No numbered or hand-signed copies are known to exist, as of March 2001." Lawrence arrived late to printmaking - he began making prints mid-career, despite his early exposure to printmaking at the Harlem Art Center during the WPA. This extremely scarce, early lithograph is just the artist's second print - made two years after his first, and before he made a commitment to printmaking in the 1970s. Nesbett L65-1.