Post War & Contemporary Art 
11 March 2021
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Rashid Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas

Portrait of Two American Artists as Young Negro Scholars

2008
c-print 19 h × 28¾ w in (48 × 73 cm)
estimate: $4,000–6,000
result: $10,000
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Sheet measures: 19.75 h x 29.75 w inches. This work is from the edition of 31 published by the Rubell Family Collection, Miami.
provenance: Private Collection, Chicago

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In 2008, I stopped being afraid of being the artist I really wanted to be and I started to make a body of work that talked about material and poetry. Before it was like: ‘How am I gonna define myself? What am I? Do I talk black?’...You get older and you’re a man. You’re like, ‘I am what I am.’ And I started making art that reflects that.

Rashid Johnson

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