Sale 2487 - African-American Fine Art, October 4, 2018

182 c RADCLIFFE BAILEY (1968 - ) UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) . Color aquatint with color photocopy chine collé and velvet, 2003. 533x406 mm; 21x16 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 2/20 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by the Paulson Press, Emeryville, CA. The UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) was founded by Marcus Garvey and dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency and the formation of an independent black nation in Africa. Though Garvey had founded the UNIA in Jamaica in 1914, its main inf luence was felt in the principal urban black neighborhoods of the northern United States after his arrival in Harlem, in New York City, in 1916. [2,000/3,000]