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Pre-bidding is now open for our September Fine Art, Design & Antiquities auction, featuring fine art, glass sculptures and vases, mid-century modern lamps, and more. Highlights include a pair of Samuel Henry Gordon Alken oil on canvas paintings, a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set" glass sculpture, and a Chinese carved hippo bone chess set, alongside paintings from Vasily Shulzhenko, John Alexander Noble, LeRoy Neiman, and more. Auction is September 30th at 1 PM CDT.
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Lot 339

Jeff Donaldson 'Portrait of a Woman' Watercolor & Ink on Paper

Estimate: $800 - $1,600
Starting Bid
$500

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Signed and dated by the artist in the lower right. 

Date: 1959

 

Image: 19" x 9 1/2" 

Frame: 25" x 15 1/2" 

 

Condition: Some undulation and toning to the paper; otherwise, the piece is in good condition.

 

Artist Bio: Jeff Donaldson (1932–2004) co-founded the Chicago visual workshop that produced the 1967 Wall of Respect, generally credited with igniting the American community mural movement, and in 1968 co-founded AfriCOBRA — the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists — with Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu and Gerald Williams. He is credited with the 1969 manifesto "Ten in Search of a Nation." The AfriCOBRA aesthetic he articulated calls for high-keyed unmixed "Kool-Aid color," shine, free rhythmic symmetry, integrated lettering, and "mimesis at mid-point" — representation held between likeness and abstraction — in service of positive, dignified images of Black people. He also championed a transAfrican aesthetic uniting the art of Africa and its diaspora, and served as dean of Howard University's College of Fine Arts from 1985 to 1998. 

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