Oct 19, 2023 - Sale 2649

Sale 2649 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001)
Our Grandmothers.

Bound folio with five lithographs printed on HMP handmade paper, 1994. Each 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches (sheet), full margins, bound as issued. From the book edition of 400 with Maya's Angelou's text. Signed by Angelou and Biggers and numbered 342 in pencil on the justification page. Published by the Limited Editions Club, New York. In the original black-lettered red linen clamshell box.

Provenance: the collection of George T. Wein, New York; the estate of George T. Wein (2021).

All proceeds to benefit the Newport Festivals Foundations, Inc., the non-profit organization created by George Wein to carry on the legacy of his Newport Jazz and Newport Folk Festivals.