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FAITH RINGGOLD (1930 - 2024) Love Poem 1 #1.
Watercolor with text in gold ink on red wove paper, 1973. 457x610 mm; 18x24 inches. Signed, titled, inscribed "NYC" and dated "May 1973" in pencil, lower left.
Provenance: the artist, New York, with the artist's ink address stamp on the frame back and a hand-written gallery label with the artist's address; private collection, Pennyslvania.
This work on paper was a 1973 collaborative series of poems written by the artist's daughter Michele Wallace accompanied by watercolors by Faith Ringgold. The poem reads: "Black Love/Is the Soul/In Which/A Rainbow/Of Fruits/Can Grow".
