Oct 19, 2010 - Sale 2226

Sale 2226 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 4,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
SLEET, JR., MONETA (1926-1996)
Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. comforting her daughter, Bernice, 5, during funeral in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. Oversize silver print, 19 1/2x15 1/2 inches (49.5x39.4 cm.), flush mounted to wood, with Sleet Jr.'s notations, in pencil and ink, and his archive hand stamp on mount verso. 1968; printed 1980s
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From the family of Moneta Sleet, Jr.
Sleet won the Pulitzer Prize for this image in 1969.