Sale 2528 - African-American Fine Art, January 30, 2020

largest paintings from Loïs Mailou Jones’ Haitian period we have seen. Jones made a dynamic breakthrough away from her earlier Impressionist style of painting with these modern paintings. Jones took her first trip to Haiti in the summer of 1954 with the invitation of President Paul E. Magloire for a portrait commission, and made subsequent annual trips with her husband Pierre- Noël through 1969. Beginning in 1961, with her Parade des Paysans , sold at Swann Galleries on October 4, 2018, and Bazar du Quai , Jones focused on the abstract forms found in the busy outdoor markets using f lattened areas of pattern and color. Today these striking 1960s paintings are some of the artist’s most sought after and distinctive works. [20,000/30,000]