Sale 2472 - African-American Fine Art, April 5, 2018

139 c CAMILLE BILLOPS (1933 -  ) Miss Dickinson sitting with Robert Johnson and Papa Gee . Glazed ceramic tile, mounted on board, 1999. 565x387 mm; 22 1 / 4 x15 1 / 4 inches. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed “NYC” in glaze, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New York. This expressive work is the first example of Camille Billops’ tiles to come to auction. This imaginative meeting of Southern cultural figures is a scene that Billops also illustrated for the collaborative modern fairytale, The Stone House, A Blues Legend by James V. Hatch, Billops’ partner, and Suzanne Noguere, published in 2000. Her prints and sculpture have been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, The Chrysler Museum, and The NewMuseum; other works are in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum of Drawers, Bern, Switzerland. [4,000/6,000]