Nov 16, 2021 - Sale 2588

Sale 2588 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
PORTFOLIO
Peace Portfolio I.

Portfolio with 12 color lithographs and screenprints and complete text, 1970. Each 650x530 mm; 25 1/2x21 inches (sheet), full margins, loose as issued. One of 175 numbered copies. Numbered 163 in pencil on the justification page. Eleven prints signed and numbered 163/175 in pencil and the Lassaw screenprint signed and numbered 73/175 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Color-Vu Studios, New York; Maurel Studios, New York; Mourlot Graphics, Ltd., New York; and Solomon and Company, New York. Published by the Academic and Professional Action Committee for a Responsible Congress, New York. Original blue cloth covered portfolio.

Includes prints by D'ARCANGELO, FERBER, GOTTLIEB (Steinberger 67), HAYTER (Black/Moorhead 226), KRASNER (Landau 536), LASSAW, MOTHERWELL (Belknap 39), ORTMAN, RAUSCHENBERG, STEINBERG, VICENTE and ZOX. Very good impressions with strong colors.

Provenance: Mrs. Percival Goodman, New York, officer of the Academic and Professional Action Committee for a Responsible Congress; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection, New York.

Peace Portfolio I was published as a fundraiser for candidates in the 1970 United States congressional election committed to ending the war in Southeast Asia.