Mar 31, 2022 - Sale 2599

Sale 2599 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LOUIS DELSARTE (1944 - 2020)
The Letter.

Color screenprint on Rising ply rag paper, 2003. 628x469 mm; 24 3/4x18 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 24/100 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Lou Stovall at the Workshop, Inc., Washington, DC, with the blind stamp, lower left.

Another impression of this print is in the permanent collection of the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.

The Letter was painted during the 1991 Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn and pays homage to Delsarte's mother, Llewellyn. It was featured on the cover of American Psychologist magazine in 2004.