Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 6,720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
The Builders (The Family).

Color screenprint on wove paper, 1974. 762x562 mm; 30x22 1/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 98/300 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, with the blind stamp lower right. Published by IBM Corporation, New York. A superb 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 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Nesbett L74-1.