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ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - )
Restaurant Patron (For Colored Only)
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Lithograph, 1946. 235x168 mm; 9
1
/
4
x6 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and dated “1947” in pencil,
lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this extremely scarce print.
Alternately titled
For Colored Only
or
Pensador (Thinker)
,
Restaurant Patron
was the first lithograph
Catlett printed at the Táller Grafica Popular. Produced after her 1946 series of linocuts,
The Negro
Woman
, few of the prints she produced there had images of African-American women.We have not
found another impression of this print at auction in the past 20 years. Herzog pp. 99-100.
[6,000/9,000]