Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

106 c PETER HUJAR (1934-1987) Come Out!! Silver print, the image measuring 16 1 / 2 x13 1 / 2 inches, 41.9x34.3 cm., the sheet slightly larger, with printing notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1969. with — Come Out, Join the Sisters & Brothers of the Gay Liberation Front. A photograph of the poster created from the image, measuring 21x18 inches, 53.3x45.7 cm. 1969. [4,000/6,000] This ebullient and optimistic image is considered “the most iconic photograph of Gay Liberation; no image better captures the spirit of the first year after the Stonewall Rebellion.” (The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, March-April 2009, p. 28). The image was used on a poster to “recruit people for the first Gay Pride march in June 1970 on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots” (ibid.)