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This vibrant, semi-abstract oil on board is an experimental painting by Loïs Mailou Jones.
Fire
Dancers
is one of her more abstract paintings from the 1950s. It was painted after her marriage to
the Haitian artist LouisVerginaud Pierre-Noël - the artist signed with her husband’s name for only
a year or so. In 1954, she was first invited by the Haitian president and the government to paint its
landscape and people. Jones also served as a guest art professor at the Centre d’Art and Foyer des
Arts Plastiques, Port-au-Prince, where she met many artists. In 1956, she and her husband travelled
back to Haiti and France. Hanzal p. 137;Tritobia p. 77.
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