Jacob Lawrence DECEPTION Serigraph Ltd Ed. Signed Art Beautiful Museum Quality Conservation Framing Start Price USD 4,150.00 Current Price USD 4,150.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, August 15, 2008 End Time Friday, August 22, 2008 Location Oak Park MI See more about 'Jacob Lawrence DECEPTION Serigraph Ltd Ed. Signed Art' Description  Jacob Lawrence "Deception" Serigraph Ltd Ed. 82/125 SNBeautiful Museum Quality Conservation FramingHere for your bidding pleasure is a Jacob Lawrence Serigraph. It is a Limited Edition ( 82/125 ) Silkscreen on Rising Two-Ply Rag Paper, signed and numbered in pencil. It comes with the COA. The paper size is 32 1/8" x 22 3/16", the image size is 28 3/4" x 18 3/4" and the framed size is 34 1/2" x 44 1/2" x 2 1/2". The framing is museum quality. A beautiful wood  with matching fillet. The linen mattes are acid free and the glass is conservation glass.  This print retails for $9000.00 at art galleries without the museum quality frame. This is a great opportunity to own a part of artistic history at a seriously reduced cost! Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, NJ in 1917. Lawrence trained and developed his artistic style in New York City. He taught on the art faculty at the University of Washington from 1971 to 1983. He is recognized as a major American artist of the 20th century. Lawrence's work is included in many major museum and corporate collections in the USA and abroad. Lawrence has received many prestigious awards and is a member of both the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (since 1988) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995). Lawrence painted from experience, observing the world around him, Harlem scenes, African markets, builders, people in the street, and most recently supermarkets with their abundance of goods and people. His historical series on Toussaint L'Ouverture, John Brown, the Migration and Harriet Tubman are known the world over through exhibitions and books, reproductions and limited edition prints. Jacob Lawrence died in the year 2000. Jacob Lawrence produced a portfolio of art titled: TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURESeries 1986-1997There were a total of 15 prints. These prints are based on forty-one paintings from a series also entitled Toussaint L'Ouverture, which was completed in 1938 and is now in the Aaron Douglas Collection of the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans. The paintings were executed in tempera and measure 11 x 19 inches, significantly smaller in scale than the prints. Lawrence reworked many of the images during the process of translating them to silk screen. When an image has been significantly altered from the original, that fact is noted in the catalogue entry. The captions Lawrence provided for the paintings at the time of their execution accompany each of the following entries. 1. The Birth of Toussaint L 'Ouverture, 1986 2. General Toussaint L 'Ouverture, 1986 3. The Capture, 1987 4. To Preserve Their Freedom, 1988 5. Toussaint at Ennery, 1989 6. The Coachman, 1990 7. Dondon, 1992 8. Contemplation, 1993 9. St. Marc, 1994 10. Strategy, 1994 11. The March, 1995 12. Flotilla, 1996 13. Deception, 1997 14. The Burning, 1997 15. The Opener, 1997 Pmodirect Fast Fact: Toussaint L 'Ouverture was a leader in the Haitian revolution. Born a slave, he rose to become commander in chief of the revolutionary army. In 1800 he coordinated the effort to draw up Haiti's first democratic constitution. However, in 1802, before the Republic was firmly established, Toussaint was arrested by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops and sent to Paris, where he was imprisoned. He died in prison the following year. In 1804 Haiti became the first black Western republic.Shipping will be quoted based on location. The buyer will pay for crating and shipping via UPS. If you have a preference on shipping we will take that into consideration. Please contact us with any further questions you may have. Thank you. Place a Bid!