Swann Galleries - African-American Fine Art, Sale 2409

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LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)

Fishermen at Port-Au-Prince

Watercolor on thick wove paper, 1965. 445x597 mm; 17

x23

inches. Signed and inscribed

“Haiti” in watercolor, lower right.

Provenance: private collection, North Carolina; thence by descent to the current owner.

[4,000/6,000]

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ALEXANDER “SKUNDER” BOGHOSSIAN (1937 - 2003)

Untitled (Abstraction)

Acrylic on cotton canvas, 1971. 743x584 mm; 29

x23 inches. Signed in ink, lower left recto. Signed

and dated in ink, lower right verso.

Provenance:Travers J. Bell, Jr., NewYork; thence by descent to the current owner.

Boghossian is considered one of the greatest Ethiopian artists, and one of Africa’s best known

contemporary artists. His paintings reflect a deep and strong foundation in the ancient culture and

symbolism of his homeland. In 1955, he received an Ethiopian Government scholarship to study in

Europe, where he studied at Saint Martins School, Central School, and the Slade School of Fine Arts,

London. In 1957, Boghossian moved to France, where he attended and taught at the École des Beaux-

Arts, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. Boghossian returned to Ethiopia in 1966, where,

for the next three years, he taught at the Fine Arts School of Addis

also was a painting professor

at Howard University inWashington, DC, from 1974 until 2000.

Boghossian was influenced by a broad range of international and black cultures—he embraced both

the “Pan-African” and universal movements. He is the first Ethiopian artist to have works acquired

by the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris in 1963, the Museum of Modern Art, NewYork in 1965, and

the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art in 1992.

[8,000/12,000]