Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier, 1979
Estimate: 4.000 - 6.000 USD
Price realised: not available
Price realised: not available
Description
Joe Frazier, 1979
Pencil sketch on The Plaza headed stationery
Signed "Muhammad Ali" and dated "June 15 -79", additionally annotated "Peace", with a color illustrated photo card featuring Ali fighting Joe Frazier, the fight card also signed and dated in blue ballpoint pen "Muhammad Ali 79", framed
This sketch was drawn for Rodney Hilton Brown by Muhammad Ali during a stay at the Plaza Hotel, New York, 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: BROWN, Rodney Hilton, Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet & Prophet, Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2021, p. 80 (illus.)
Sketch: 4 1/2 x 4 in.; Frame: 16 x 9 in.
Pencil sketch on The Plaza headed stationery
Signed "Muhammad Ali" and dated "June 15 -79", additionally annotated "Peace", with a color illustrated photo card featuring Ali fighting Joe Frazier, the fight card also signed and dated in blue ballpoint pen "Muhammad Ali 79", framed
This sketch was drawn for Rodney Hilton Brown by Muhammad Ali during a stay at the Plaza Hotel, New York, 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: BROWN, Rodney Hilton, Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet & Prophet, Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2021, p. 80 (illus.)
Sketch: 4 1/2 x 4 in.; Frame: 16 x 9 in.
Muhammad Ali - Auction history
