Feb 28, 2006 - Sale 2068

Sale 2068 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LAWRENCE, JACOB. ". . . And the Migrants Kept Coming." 26 color illustrations from his 60 panel "Exodus" series, printed here on 7 pages in Fortune Magazine for November, 1941. Small, thick folio, original pictorial wrappers; faint crease to the bottom right corner of the front cover, otherwise an exceptional copy. November, 1941

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Fortune was the first mainstream magazine to feature an African-American artist's work. First exhibited in New York's Downtown Gallery and almost simultaneously appearing in the pages of Fortune Magazine, Lawrence's series literally put him on the map.