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Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
My Trial, 1967
Felt pen on translucent paper
Signed "By Muhammad Ali"
Framed; with a copy of Avant Garde Magazine, Issue No. 1, New York, January, 1968, featuring an article devoted to Muhammad Ali's artwork
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 the courtroom in my trial, the lawyers holding up their petitions and facing the judge, and jury sitting there and looking a little angry, and then the judge, not looking too happy himself before the decision is rendered, and everything is so gloomy. All I can picture is the way things are going. I'm on my way to jail, so here you can see me thinking with the jail on my mind.
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. 40 (illus.)
Overall: 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 in., Magazine: 11 x 11 in.
Felt pen on translucent paper
Signed "By Muhammad Ali"
Framed; with a copy of Avant Garde Magazine, Issue No. 1, New York, January, 1968, featuring an article devoted to Muhammad Ali's artwork
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 the courtroom in my trial, the lawyers holding up their petitions and facing the judge, and jury sitting there and looking a little angry, and then the judge, not looking too happy himself before the decision is rendered, and everything is so gloomy. All I can picture is the way things are going. I'm on my way to jail, so here you can see me thinking with the jail on my mind.
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. 40 (illus.)
Overall: 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 in., Magazine: 11 x 11 in.


















