Mar 31, 2022 - Sale 2599

Sale 2599 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017)
Nation Time II.

Color screenprint on lavender-colored wove paper, 1970. 508x727 mm; 20x28 3/8 inches. Artist's print, aside from an edition of ten or fewer impressions printed by the artist. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist's Print" in pencil, lower margin.

Provenance: collection of the artist, thence by descent to William Jones; private collection, Illinois.

Another impression was exhibited in We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 Brooklyn Museum, April 21 - September 17, 2017 and Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, March 7 - July 13, 2014.

Illustrated: Faheem Majeed, Barbara Wildholmand, Zoé Whitley and Rebecca Zorach. Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, p. 68.

Another impression of this screenprint is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

Nation Time II is a scarce print by AfriCOBRA founding member Barbara Jones-Hogu.