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Lot 94

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$500 - 700
Price Realized
$445
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Lot Description

[BLACK POWER]. A group of 5 Black Power blacklight/Day-Glo posters, comprising:


War Queen. 1970. -- GOODE, George, artist. Man and Woman I. 1970 (signed in image) ((some loss to top right and bottom left corners, marginal chipping and creasing). -- GOODE, George, artist. Now! Free My Mind. 1971 (signed in image). -- GOODE, George, artist. Afro-Love. 1971 (signed in image) (short tear near top edge). -- Together, 4 blacklight posters, each Uvalde and Houston, TX: Houston Blacklight & Poster Dist. Co., Inc., each approx. 21 3/4 x 34 in., condition fine, with occasional short marginal tears and chipping. 

The artist George Goode created artworks that featured "Black fantasy warriors" published by the Houston Black Light Company. Two examples here have Goode's signature printed in image, however, others are also likely his work. (David Ensminger, "Black Light Panthers: The Politics of Fluorescence". Art in Print. Vol. 5, No. 2, July-August 2015, p.17)

[With:] The Panther and the Guardians. Chicago, IL: Apogee Posters, Inc., 1972. 22 3/8 x 34 1/2 in. blacklight poster (few marginal chips, creases, slight loss to lower right corner).

Together, 5 posters. 

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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