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LÖIS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)
Festival
.
Mixed media on thin cream wove paper, 1964. 825x610 mm; 32
1
/
2
x24 inches. Signed and dated in
watercolor, lower right.
Provenance: the artist,Washington, DC, with her hand-written label on the frame back; private
collection,Washington, DC.
This large and vibrant work on paper is a scarce example of abstract painting by the artist. Jones was
clearly inspired by the rising popularity of Abstract-Expressionism in the early 1960s, and made some
forays into abstraction during her trips to Haiti at the time. Other examples of abstract paintings
include
Cock Fight
, 1960,
Mardi Gras
, 1961, and
Vévé Voudou II
, 1963. Benjamin pp. 84 and 86.
[7,000/10,000]
