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FAITH RINGGOLD (1930 - 2024) Love Poem 2 #3. (Orange)
Watercolor on orange wove paper, 1973. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed, titled, inscribed "NYC" and dated "May 1973" in pencil, lower left.
Provenance: the artist, New York; 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: "From Your Evening Colored Woman/I Am Blood Red/Evergreen/Midnight Blue/Black in Love/With You Man".
