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FAITH RINGGOLD (1930 - ) Somebody Stole My Broken Heart.
Acrylic and pen and ink on wove paper, 2004. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed, dated and numbered "#1" in ink, lower right.
Provenance: ACA Gallery, New York; private collection, Florida (2006).
With this work on paper, Faith Ringgold depicts the first panel of her 2004 Jazz Stories: Mama can Sing, Papa can Blow series of story quilts. The quilt series was the subject of a solo exhibition at ACA Galleries, New York in January 2005. She also made two versions in color screenprint in 2004 and 2007 - impressions are in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
