Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ART.) AfriCOBRA II exhibition catalog. [16] pages, 8½ x 5½ inches, including illustrated wrappers; bit of adhesion loss to front wrapper, otherwise minimal wear. [New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, November 1971]

Additional Details

The second exhibition by the group of artists known as AfriCOBRA (African Commune Of Bad Relevant Artists). Includes a cover illustration of Wadsworth Jarrell's "Revolutionary (Angela)," a subtle portrait of Angela Davis (illustrated), as well as essays by Edward Springs, Jeff Donaldson, and Cherilyn Wright, and illustrations of works by Barbara Jones, Gerald Williams, Nelson Stevens, Napoleon Henderson, Howard Mallory, and Carolyn Lawrence. None traced at auction.

With--another Studio Museum in Harlem publication, "From the Studio: Artists in Residence 1985-1986," an illustrated six-panel trifold brochure for an exhibition of works by Nadine DeLawrence Maine and Kerry Marshall.