Sale 2472 - African-American Fine Art, April 5, 2018

123 c JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000) To Preserve Their Freedom . Color screenprint on Bainbridge Two Ply Rag paper, 1988. 470x730 mm; 18 1 / 2 x28 3 / 4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 17/79 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Workshop, Inc., Washington DC. Published by the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, and Spradling Ames, Key West, Florida. From The Life of Toussant L’Ouverture , this print is based on the thirty-eighth image from the original series of forty-one paintings, with significant differences in the central figure, reconfiguration in the sky and foliage. Nesbett L88-2. [5,000/7,000]