Photo © Wright — view this lot on Wright ↗Excerpt, 2014
Lithograph · Paper
Wright · Dec 16, 2025$8,255 ≈ £6,143 ≈ €7,010Sign up free to see price
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Emancipation Approximation: Scenes 5; 9; 15; 18; and 26
Kara Walker (American, b. 1969) · 1999-2000
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $50,000 – $70,000 (≈ £35,804 – £50,125) (≈ €41,490 – €58,086)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Screenprint · Prints & multiples all screenprint results →As published: “Five screenprints in colors, on Somerset paper, the full sheets”
- Support
- Paper
- Edition
- VIII/XXV
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated · Kara Walker signature
- Category
- Screenprints
- Dimensions
- all S. 44 x 34 in. (111.8 x 86.4 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Editions & Works on Paper (NY030121)
- Date
- April 20, 2021
- Location
- New York, United States
- Lot
- 42
- Estimate
- $50,000 – $70,000 (≈ £35,804 – £50,125) (≈ €41,490 – €58,086)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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