ARTNET NEWS
By Sarah Cascone
"He was the most important political-cultural figure to survive the deadly tumult of the 1960s and flourish in the 1970s," Wesley Morris wrote about
Muhammad Ali in the New York Times. As the world mourns the boxing legend, who died at 74 on June 3, his under-appreciated talent as a visual artist is being celebrated in an upcoming auction at
New York's RoGallery. Ali is just one of celebrities whose artwork will be included in the gallery's June 15 sale of the estate of Baird Jones. [
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