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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ROBERT BLACKBURN (1920 - 2003) Refugees.
Lithograph on cream wove paper, circa 1938. 286x403 mm; 11 1/4x15 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 8/8 in pencil, lower margin.
Robert Blackburn printed Refugees, alternately titled People in a Boat, at the Harlem Community Art Center, where he studied lithography with printmaker Riva Helfond. The scarce, early print was then illustrated in DeWitt Clinton High School's literary magazine, The Magpie, in June 1938, where Blackburn attended with James Baldwin and Richard Avedon.
Other impressions of this print are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham, NC. This is the first known impression of this lithograph to appear at auction.
