Oct 06, 2022 - Sale 2616

Sale 2616 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001)
The Word.

Lithograph on buff wove paper, 1965. 381x508 mm; 15x20 inches, full margins. Proof, aside from the first edition. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "proof 1st Ed" and "From Marian Anderson's People" in pencil, lower margin.

Illustrated: A Life on Paper: The Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas Biggers, Olive Jensen Theisen, University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, 1984, fig. 50, p. 67.

This scarce print, dating from the artist's first body of work in lithography, is a first edition proof for Marian Anderson's People.