Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence

1917 - 2000

General Toussaint L'Ouverture (Nesbett L86-2)

signed in pencil and dated 1986 (lower right); titled L'Ouverture (lower center); inscribed Artist Proof 5/25 (lower left)

screenprint in colors on Bainbridge Two Ply Rag wove paper

image: 28¼ in. by 18½ in. (71.9 by 46.9 cm.)

sheet: 32⅛ by 22 in. (81.5 by 55.9 cm.)

Executed in 1986; this impression is one of 25 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 100, with the blindstamp of the printer, Lou Stovall, the Workshop, Inc., co-published by the Amistad Research Center and Spradling Ames.