Oct 04, 2007 - Sale 2122

Sale 2122 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
MARGO HUMPHREY (1942 - )
The Essence of Freedom.

Color lithograph on Arches, 1968. Approximately 559x279 mm; 22x11 inches, full ( 1/8- to 1 inch) margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/10 in pencil, lower margin. From the Zebra series. A superb, richly-colored impression of this scarce print.

Illustrated in Lewis, ill. 272 (incorrectly identified as A Second Time in Blackness), p. 263.

Lewis describes these as "among the important lithographic works she produced during this period"; "the outstanding Zebra series, whose animal and human forms are sharply delineated from their environments by means of light lines." Lewis, p. 263.