Apr 03, 2025 - Sale 2698

Sale 2698 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 11,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015)
The Richard Wright Suite.

Portfolio with complete text and 6 etchings with aquatint printed in blue and black on Rives BFK paper, 2001. Each 305x406mm; 12x16 inches (sheet), loose as issued.

Edition of 60 numbered sets. Each signed, dated and numbered 17/60 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by James Stroud, Center Street Studio, Boston. Published by the Limited Editions Club, New York. Original blue linen box.

Titles include: Journey of the Mann Family. * Embarkation * Light in the Window. * Death of Lulu. * Mann Attacked. * The Death of Mann.

Additional Details

These six etchings by John Woodrow Wilson illustrate the haunting plot of Richard Wright's short story, Down by the Riverside. Other copies of this portfolio are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery.