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MARGARET BURROUGHS (1917 - 2010)
Queen of the Blues.
Lithograph on wove paper, 1953. 406x356 mm; 16x14 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and
numbered 1/20 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this scarce print.
This print is alternately titled
Reina del Blues
and was printed during Burroughs’s time at the Taller
de Gráfica Popular in Mexico. The lithograph is based on Carl Van Vechten’s 1936 photogravure
portrait of Bessie Smith.We have not found another impression of this print at auction in the past
20 years.
[2,000/3,000]