Oct 06, 2016 - Sale 2424

Sale 2424 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - )
UNITE.

Color screenprint, 1971. 572x768 mm; 22 1/2x30 1/2 inches, wide margins. Violet ink stamped "AfriCOBRA, Print $10, Copyright 1971," lower left.

UNITE is a striking example of the work by the artist collaborative AfriCOBRA, in Chicago. Having worked together on the mural The Wall of Respect, Barbara Jones-Hogu and her contemporaries wanted to establish a revolutionary but representational style that could be accessible to a wide urban audience. The Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists (COBRA) soon became the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA). Between 1968 and 1973, the group organized exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and published large, colorful screenprints such as this. Schmidt Campbell p. 57.