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Cassius Clay Sr/Muhammad Ali

5 October 2021, 13:00 EDT
New York

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Cassius Clay Sr/Muhammad Ali

Odessa Lee Grady Clay
Photograph on canvas of painting by Cassius Clay Sr.
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Muhammad Ali's Father, Cassius Clay Sr. was a talented artist. He made a living painting signs and billboards as well as ecclesiastical paintings in Baptist churches throughout Kentucky. The Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Green Street Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky both feature murals and altarpieces by Cassius Clay Sr. who would often enlist the help of his sons, Cassius Jr. [Muhammad Ali] and Randolph [now Rahaman Ali]. The only known painting by Ali's father of Ali's mother was unfinished at the time of this photograph and still faintly shows the pencil index lines indicating that it was not painted freehand.

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. 17 (illus.)

Frame: 25 x 20 1/2 in.

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