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PETER SAUL Shicago Justus.
Color lithograph, 1971. 406x610mm; 15 3/4x23 3/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 150. Signed, dated and inscribed "Artist's proof" in pencil, lower margin, and with the artist's copyright ink stamp, verso. Printed by Bank Street Atelier, New York, with the blind stamp lower right. Published by David G. Godine Publishers and the Center for Constitutional Rights, New York. From Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness. A very good impression with vibrant colors.
Saul's (born 1934) lithograph represents the activist Bobby Seale subdued by injections labeled "SHICAGO" and "JUSTUS." Seale (born 1936) co-founded the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. Founded as the "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense," the Party's main practice was monitoring police activities and challenging police brutality in Black communities, first in Oakland, California, and later in cities throughout the United States. While Seale was on trial as a defendant charged with conspiracy and inciting a riot in the wake of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, one of the "Chicago Eight" defendants, he repeatedly claimed he was denied his constitutional right to defend himself and he was found in contempt of the court. Seale was then handcuffed, leg-cuffed to a chair and a tape was placed around his mouth to stop him from talking in the court. Though he was never convicted in the case, on November 5, 1969, the judge sentenced him to four years in prison for 16 counts of contempt.
