Melvin Edwards Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Melvin Edwards Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 06, 2026
Melvin Edwards 1980 Signed Serigraph Premonitions
Est: $400 - $800
Edwards, Melvin (African-American, 1937-2026), Premonitions, 2007, screenprint in colors on Arches paper, image: 23.75 x 18.75 inches, sheet 30.25 x 22.75 inches, pencil signed, dated, titled, and numbered 10/60, unframed.
Concept Art Gallery
Jun. 04, 2026
Melvin Edwards (1937-2026), A Page From the Poet, 1975.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Melvin Edwards (1937-2026) A Page From the Poet. Watercolor and ink on paper, 1975. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, verso.
Swann Auction Galleries
May. 21, 2026
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937-2026). To Sing Again; Pamberi; Black Label [Three Work
Est: $120,000 - $180,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937-2026). To Sing Again; Pamberi; Black Label [Three Works].
Christie's
May. 16, 2026
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 untitled 1998 color lithograph 29-1/2 x 21-1/4 inches signed in pencil and dated, with "P/P"
Black Art Auction
Apr. 02, 2026
Melvin Edwards and Jayne Cortez, For the Brave Young Students in Soweto, 1984.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Melvin Edwards and Jayne Cortez For the Brave Young Students in Soweto. Oil monotype and lithograph on Rives BFK, 1984. Signed by Jayne Cortez and dated in pencil, lower right.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 02, 2026
Melvin Edwards, (b. 1937), Night Chains, 1974.
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Melvin Edwards (1937-2026) Night Chains. Etching and aquatint on Arches, 1974. Artist's proof, aside from the edition. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artists Proof" in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 05, 2025
Melvin Edwards, Premonitions
Est: $400 - $600
Melvin Edwards Premonitions 2007 screenprint in colors on Arches image: 23.625 h x 17.75 w in (60 x 45 cm) sheet: 30 h x 22.5 w in (76 x 57 cm) Signed, titled, dated and numbered to lower edge '27/60 Premonitions Mel Edwards 2007'. This work is number 27 from the edition of 60 printed by the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Oct. 18, 2025
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 untitled n.d. etching and aquatint 19-1/2 x 23-1/2 inches signed, with Working Proof
Black Art Auction
Oct. 18, 2025
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 untitled c. 1970s etching and aquatint 19-1/2 x 23-1/2 inches signed, with Working Proof written in pencil
Black Art Auction
Oct. 07, 2025
Melvin Edwards (1937-), Prepared (Lynch Fragment), 1995.
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Melvin Edwards (1937-) Prepared (Lynch Fragment). Welded steel, 1995. With the artist's signature, title and date welded on the underside. From the artist's Lynch Fragment series.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 03, 2025
Melvin Edwards, Premonitions
Est: $400 - $600
Melvin Edwards Premonitions 2007 screenprint in colors on Arches image: 23.75 h x 18.75 w in (60 x 48 cm) sheet: 30.125 h x 22.75 w in (77 x 58 cm) Signed, titled, dated and numbered to lower edge '26/60 Premonitions Mel Edwards 2007'. This work is number 26 from the edition of 60. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Jun. 14, 2025
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 untitled 2024 serigraph on black paper 24 x 18 inches (image) 30 x 22-1/2 inches (sheet) signed, numbered 5/6
Black Art Auction
Jun. 14, 2025
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Transcendence
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Transcendence 2007 serigraph 24 x 21 inches (image) 30 x 22-1/4 inches (sheet) signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/50
Black Art Auction
Jun. 14, 2025
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 untitled 2023 spray paint on paper 18 x 24 inches (sheet) signed and dated. unique
Black Art Auction
Jun. 14, 2025
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Fragment and Shadows
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Fragment and Shadows 2001 stenciled cotton rag pulp on vellum sheet 22 x 17 inches signed, dated and numbered 5/20
Black Art Auction
Jun. 05, 2025
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Vision and Purpose IV.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Vision and Purpose IV. Color screenprint and digital print, 2023. 613x453 mm; 24⅛x17⅞ inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/15 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Raven Fine Art Editions, Easton, Pennsylvania, with the blind stamp lower left.
Swann Auction Galleries
May. 22, 2025
MELVIN EDWARDS, TEXAS SUNDAY BLUE, LITHOGRAPH
Est: $1,275 - $1,800
Artist: Melvin Edwards, American (1937 - ) Title: Texas Sunday Blue Year: 1991 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 15/30 Size: 43 in. x 31 in. (109.22 cm x 78.74 cm) Frame Size: 46 x 34 inches
RoGallery
Apr. 03, 2025
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Vision and Purpose II.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Vision and Purpose II. Color screenprint and digital print, 2023. 612x453 mm; 24x17⅞ inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/15 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Raven Fine Art Editions, Easton, PA, with the blind stamp lower left. Consigned to support the mission of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 03, 2024
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Untitled (Self-Portrait).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Untitled (Self-Portrait). Intaglio on Arches paper, circa 1998. 502x654 mm; 19¾x25¾ inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 70/100 in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 03, 2024
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Fragment and Shadows.
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Fragment and Shadows. Stenciled cotton rag pulp on vellum sheet, 2001. 558x431 mm; 22x17 inches. Signed, dated, and numbered 12/20. Published by Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY. Additional impressions of this print are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Swann Auction Galleries
Sep. 14, 2024
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Coco Variant
Est: $3,500 - $4,500
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Coco Variant 1979 etching and aquatint 17-1/2 x 25-1/2 inches (image) full margins signed, dated, titled, dedicated, with Artist's Proof "To Warner and Jan from Mel and Jayne" Provenance: private collection, Atlanta, GA
Black Art Auction
Jun. 27, 2024
MELVIN EDWARDS - PREMONITIONS
Est: $800 - $1,200
Lot 104 Melvin Edwards American (b. 1937) Premonitions (2007) serigraph signed lower right margin, editioned 15/60 23 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches unframed
Capsule Gallery Auction
Jun. 11, 2024
Melvin Edwards, attribution, A Non-Pornographic Painting Revisited
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Melvin Edwards, attribution A Non-Pornographic Painting Revisited 1960 oil on canvas 24 h x 36 w in (61 x 91 cm) Signed to lower left 'M. Edwards'. Signed, titled and dated to verso 'Mel Edwards A Non-Pornographic Painting Revisited Melvin Edwards Spring 1960'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Dec. 02, 2023
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Monumental I
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Monumental I 2023 serigraph on light grey BFK Rives paper 30 x 22 inches signed, titled, dated, and numbered, 12/30
Black Art Auction
Dec. 02, 2023
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Transcendence
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Transcendence 2007 serigraph on BFK Rives paper 30 x 22 inches (sheet) signed and dated, numbered 9/50 Transcendence relates to a sculpture of the same title, which honors David Kearney McDonogh 1844, Lafayette Collegeâs first African American graduate. McDonogh was born into slavery, became a physician, practicing in New York City area. The sculpture project was proposed by Curlee Raven Holton, professor of art and founding director of the Collegeâs Experimental Printmaking Institute, EPI, with which Edwards has collaborated before. He served as artist-in-residence at EPI in 2004-05, supported by the David L. Temple Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series Fund. The sculpture is âabstract and symbolic, massive and upward-reaching, representing struggle and tension and achievement,â Holton said. He has created a print whose sales will support a scholarship in Edwardsâ name that will benefit students interested in graphic art. (from an article in The New York Times (2009)
Black Art Auction
Oct. 19, 2023
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Untitled (Self-Portrait).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Untitled (Self-Portrait). Intaglio on Arches paper, circa 1998. 502x654 mm; 19 3/4x25 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 70/100 in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 21, 2023
MELVIN EDWARDS, TEXAS SUNDAY BLUE, LITHOGRAPH
Est: $1,500 - $1,800
Artist: Melvin Edwards, American (1937 - ) Title: Texas Sunday Blue Year: 1991 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 15/30 Size: 43 in. x 31 in. (109.22 cm x 78.74 cm) Frame Size: 46 x 34 inches
RoGallery
May. 20, 2023
Mel Edwards, b. 1937, Monumental II
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Mel Edwards b. 1937 Monumental II 2023 serigraph 22 x 30 signed, titled, dated and numbered, 8/8
Black Art Auction
May. 20, 2023
Mel Edwards, b. 1937, Monumental I
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Mel Edwards b. 1937 Monumental I 2023 serigraph 30 x 22 inches signed, titled, dated, and numbered, 9/30
Black Art Auction
May. 18, 2023
MELVIN EDWARDS (b. 1937) Ile Ogun, Planetary, Road to Goma, Alterable [Four
Est: $120,000 - $180,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (b. 1937) Ile Ogun, Planetary, Road to Goma, Alterable [Four...
Christie's
Feb. 04, 2023
MELVIN EDWARDS, TEXAS SUNDAY BLUE, LITHOGRAPH
Est: $1,500 - $1,800
Artist: Melvin Edwards, American (1937 - ) Title: Texas Sunday Blue Year: 1991 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 15/30 Size: 43 in. x 31 in. (109.22 cm x 78.74 cm) Frame Size: 46 x 34 inches
RoGallery
Oct. 06, 2022
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Premonitions.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Premonitions. Color screenprint on Arches paper, 2007. 596x448 mm; 23 1/2x17 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 21/60 in pencil, lower margin. Printed at the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, PA. Another impression is in the collection of the Brooks Memphis Museum of Art, Memphis, TN.
Swann Auction Galleries
Sep. 08, 2022
Melvin Edwards, For Giza
Est: $800 - $1,000
Melvin Edwards For Giza 1991 lithograph in colors 30 h × 22 w in (76 × 56 cm) Signed, titled and dated to lower edge '14/50 for Giza 1991 Melvin Edwards' with blindstamp. Inscribed to verso 'Scholarship Edition R.C.I.P. 1-309'. This work is number 14 from the edition of 50 printed by Anya Szykitka and published by Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia. This work will ship from LAMA in Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles Modern Auctions
Mar. 31, 2022
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) August Water #4.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) August Water #4. Acrylic spray paint, Chinese ink & enamel on wove paper, 1992. 432x356 mm; 17x14 inches. Initialed and dated in ink, lower right. Provenance: acquired from G. R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI, with the label on the frame back; private collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 12, 2022
Mel Edwards, b.1937, Inside Out
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Mel Edwards b.1937 Inside Out 2008 serigraph signed, titled, dated March 19, 2008, and numbered 14/16 28 x 38 inches
Black Art Auction
Oct. 07, 2021
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Untitled.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Untitled. Color lithograph on wove paper, 1998. 753x539 mm; 29 5/8x21 1/4 inches. Signed, dated and numbered 12/80 in pencil, lower edge. Provenance: Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, with the gallery label on the frame back; private collection, Pennsylvania.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 06, 2021
Melvin Edwards American, b. 1937 Nyam, 2006
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
Melvin Edwards American, b. 1937 Nyam, 2006 Signed and dated MEdwards/2006 and inscribed as titled on the reverse Welded steel and found objects 9 x 7 x 4 1/2 inches (22.8 x 17.8 x 11.4 cm) C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Jul. 17, 2021
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Untitled
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Untitled 1998 color lithograph 29 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches signed in pencil and dated, with "A/P"
Black Art Auction
Apr. 22, 2021
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Untitled (Self-Portrait).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Untitled (Self-Portrait). Intaglio on Arches paper, circa 1998. 500x635 mm; 20x26 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 34/100 in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 20, 2021
Melvin Edwards American, b. 1937 Maquette for 'Passage', 1989-91
Est: $20,000 - $40,000
Melvin Edwards American, b. 1937 Maquette for 'Passage', 1989-91 Signed and dated Melvin Edwards 1989-91 and inscribed Passage Welded steel 12 x 14 1/2 x 12 inches (30.5 x 36.9 x 30.5) Provenance: Leon M. Goldstein, former President of Kingsborough Community College and former acting Chancellor of the City University of New York Thence by descent to the estate Exhibited: Brooklyn, NY, Kingsborough Art Museum, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, Passages: Sculptures and Prints 1989-2017, Apr.16 - May 18, 2016 This work is a maquette for Passage, which currently is on-site at CUNY/Kingsborough College, Brooklyn. C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Feb. 06, 2021
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Untitled
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Untitled 1998 color lithograph 29 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches signed in pencil and dated, with "A/P"
Black Art Auction
Feb. 06, 2021
Mel Edwards, b.1937, Inside Out
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Mel Edwards b.1937 Inside Out 2008 serigraph signed, titled, dated March 19, 2008, and numbered 14/16 28 x 38 inches
Black Art Auction
Feb. 06, 2021
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Fragment and Shadows
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Fragment and Shadows 2001 stenciled cotton rag pulp on vellum sheet 22 x 17 inches signed, dated and numbered 5/20
Black Art Auction
Nov. 22, 2020
MEL EDWARDS (American, b. 1937), ARTIST'S PROOF
Est: $400 - $600
untitled abstract color lithograph overall: 29-3/4 x 21-1/4 in., framed composition in black on red and orange ground; pencil signed lower right, ed. A/P and dated 1998 lower left aka Melvin Edwards (b. Houston, Texas) Limited Preview: Please note that this auction has a limited in-person preview. Not all items may be on display in the saleroom, if you wish to view a particular item in-person we strongly suggest contacting the gallery in advance of your visit.
Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC
Nov. 14, 2020
Mel Edwards, b. 1937, Transcendence Blue, Serigraph with silver, 24 x 18 inches
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Mel Edwards b. 1937 Transcendence Blue Serigraph with silver 2007 signed, titled, and dated 2/26/2007. Artist Proof. 24 x 18 inches (image), 30 x 22 inches (sheet). Mel Edwards was born and raised in Houston, but was given a football scholarship to play at the University of Southern California. Upon arriving at the school, he abandoned sports and began studying art. Edwards' work was born of conflict: the prevailing modern art movement was toward abstraction and the non-objective while he was a student, but he believed art had been made throughout history for a reason and to tell a story. He also faced pressure as an African American artist to present a narrative of racial status. His welded steel Lynch Fragments consolidated those disparate mindsets. His compositions were balanced and pure, yet presented a narrative that was at once current and historical. Edwards found he could present similarly strong images in two-dimensional printmaking as well. In 2008, Edwards' 16 foot tall stainless steel sculpture, Transcendence, was installed on the campus of Lafayette College in Easton, PA. The project was proposed by Curlee Raven Holton, professor of art and founding director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI). Holton and Edwards had collaborated previously in 2004-2005, when Edwards served as artist-in-residence at EPI. This print was executed and sold to support a scholarship in Edwards' name for students interested in graphic arts. 24 x 18 inches
Black Art Auction
Jul. 11, 2020
Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Untitled, mixed media diptych, 21.25 x 29.5 inches (each sheet)
Est: $700 - $900
Melvin Edwards b. 1937 Untitled mixed media diptych Melvin Edwards and Jayne Cortez 1988 Signed, dated and numbered 90/90 Provenance: The collection of E.J. Montgomery Edwards and Cortez were married in 1975, and occasionally collaborated, with Edwards providing visual art to accompany Cortez's poems or writings. This work features two poems by Cortez. Stockpiling comments on the decadence of a majority society, calling people to come forward and make a change, and addresses the pressure to conform. Deadly Radiation Blues criticizes the ecological devastation to which humans have subjected the planet. 21.25 x 29.5 inches (each sheet)
Black Art Auction
Nov. 24, 2019
Melvin Edwards and Jayne Cortez Diptych
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Melvin Edwards (b. 1937) and Jayne Cortez (1934-2012) Untitled, 1998 mixed media collage on paper signed and dated, 10/2/98 21-1/4 x 29-1/2 (each sheet)
Treadway Gallery
Oct. 04, 2018
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Lusaka.
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) Lusaka. Welded steel, 1980. Approximately 317x241x178 mm; 12 1/2x9 1/2x7 inches. Signed, titled and dated in steel, verso. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New York (1984). Melvin Edwards' series Lynch Fragments, spans over three periods throughout his career: the early 1960s, during the Civil Rights movement, where he was responding to the violence of blacks in America; the 1970s and United States' controversial involvement in the Vietnam War; and from 1978 to the present, where he explores a variety of themes. Edward's work reflects his engagement with the history of race, labor, violence, as well as with the themes of the African diaspora. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Studio Museum of Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
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