Apr 04, 2024 - Sale 2664

Sale 2664 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
SAMELLA LEWIS (1924 - )
20th Century Prophets.

Woodcut on newsprint mounted on cream wove paper, 1968. 273x140 mm; 11⅞x5⅞ inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 19/35 in pencil, lower margin.

Another impression of this scarce print, entitled Twentieth Century Wisemen, was exhibited in the 2012-13 traveling exhibition Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980. Jones p. 249.