FAITH RINGGOLD (1930 - 2024) Kassel Germany, No Black Art at Documenta, Series 5, No. 39.
Watercolor with text in ink on mauve wove paper, 1972. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed, titled, inscribed "NYC" and dated "August 72" in pencil, lower left.
Provenance: the artist, New York; private collection, Pennyslvania.
This work on paper was a 1972 collaborative series of poems written by the artist's daughter Michele Wallace accompanied by watercolors by Faith Ringgold. The text reads: "In London Black Art Means/A Talent For the Perverse/In New York the Black Art/Does Not Exist/Except When Its Brown Male and Brown" and "Words And Paintings By/Faith Ringgold in Kassel/In Aug 1972". Ringgold visited Documenta in 1972 in Kassel, Germany while traveling in Europe with her daughter.
