Apr 06, 2023 - Sale 2632

Sale 2632 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
JEFF DONALDSON (1932 - 2004)
Victory in the Valley of Eshu.

Color screenprint on cream wove paper, 1971. 914x673 mm; 36x26 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, inscribed "imp" and numbered 70/280 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Lou Stovall, Washington, DC. Published by AfriCOBRA.

Jeff Donaldson was a co-founder of AfriCOBRA and was the longtime Chair of the Art Department at Howard University in Washington, DC. Other impressions of this print are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and Tate Modern, London. A retrospective of Donaldson's work was organized by the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY in 2018, and traveled to the Akron Art Museum in Ohio.