Oct 03 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2680 -

Sale 2680 - Lot 106

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
LEV MILLS (1938 - 2021)
Le Roi…?

Color screenprint on paper on wove paper, 1972. 603x479 mm; 23⅔x18⅞ inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 15/50 in pencil, lower margin.

Other impressions of this print are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Another impression of this screenprint was in the Brooklyn Museum iteration of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, September 2018 - February 2019, co-curated by Mark Godfrey, Zoe Whitley, and Ashley James.

Mills' screenprint portrays Black Arts Movement poet Amiri Baraka, born Everett Leroy Jones.