
Lot 20
Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
5 October 2021, 13:00 EDT
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Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
War In America, 1967
Felt pen on translucent paper
Unsigned
Framed
This drawing was done for an article in Avant Garde magazine, 1967. Ali provided commentary to the works included in the article and about this work, he said This is just a picture of war as been going on everywhere, in foreign countries and right here in our cities, where little babies and women and everybody's being killed and slaughtered.
Exhibited: Muhammad Ali: World Premier Art Exhibition, Roseland Grand Ballroom, New York, January, 1979.
Provenance: From the Collection of Rodney Hilton Brown, formerly President of Hilton Fine Arts, Ltd., publisher of Muhammad Ali's limited edition silkscreen prints, 1978.
Literature: Avant Garde magazine, Issue One, January, 1968 (illus.)
BROWN, Rodney Hilton, Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet & Prophet, Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2021, p. 43 (illus.)
Frame: 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.
Felt pen on translucent paper
Unsigned
Framed
This drawing was done for an article in Avant Garde magazine, 1967. Ali provided commentary to the works included in the article and about this work, he said This is just a picture of war as been going on everywhere, in foreign countries and right here in our cities, where little babies and women and everybody's being killed and slaughtered.
Exhibited: Muhammad Ali: World Premier Art Exhibition, Roseland Grand Ballroom, New York, January, 1979.
Provenance: From the Collection of Rodney Hilton Brown, formerly President of Hilton Fine Arts, Ltd., publisher of Muhammad Ali's limited edition silkscreen prints, 1978.
Literature: Avant Garde magazine, Issue One, January, 1968 (illus.)
BROWN, Rodney Hilton, Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet & Prophet, Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2021, p. 43 (illus.)
Frame: 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.