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LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)
Marché de Kenscoff, Haiti.
Oil on canvas, 1962. 914x457 mm; 36x18 inches. Signed and inscribed “Haiti” in oil, lower right
recto. Dated in oil, lower left recto.Titled in ink on the upper stretcher bar verso.
Provenance: collection of the artist; thence by descent to the Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël Trust.
With numerous labels of the artist on the verso, with both her Quincy Street and 17th Street addresses.
Exhibited:
Explorations in the City of Life: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-65
, the Studio
Museum in Harlem, NewYork, with the label on the frame back.
Illustrated:Tritobia Hayes Benjamin,
The Life and Art of Loïs Mailou Jones
, p. 85; Kinshasha Holman
Conwill,
Explorations in the City of Life:African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-65
, p. 51, pl. 6.
Marché de Kenscoff, Haiti
is one of the artist’s most modern paintings from her Haitian period when
she made a dynamic breakthrough away from her early Impressionist style of painting. Jones took
her first trip to Haiti in the summer of 1954 with the invitation of President Paul E. Magliore for his
portrait commission, and made subsequent annual trips with her husband Pierre-Noël through 1969.
Beginning in 1961, she focused on the abstract forms found in the busy outdoor markets using
flattened areas of pattern and color.Today, these striking 1960s paintings are some of the artist’s best
known and distinctive works.
[12,000/18,000]