Oct 09, 2014 - Sale 2359

Sale 2359 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
The Library.

Color screenprint on heavy cream wove paper, 1978. 260x384 mm; 10 1/2x15 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 56/100 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by the Screen Workshop, East Hampton, NY. Published by Five Towns Music and Art Foundation, Woodmere, NY.

This print is based on a 1966 gouache painting, which shares the theme of libraries with his paintings The Libraries Are Appreciated, 1943, from the Harlem Series, Library II and Library III, both 1960. Nesbett L78-1.