Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
JONES, LOIS [MAILOU.] Haile Selassie [supplied title]. Untitled colored pencil and pastel bust portrait of the Ethiopian king, wearing a tribal hat and holding an earthenware jug, 26x22 inches; Signed lower right. Paris, 1940s

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Jones (1905-1998) born in Boston, studied in France, was on the faculty at Howard University from 1930 to 1977. Her French paintings were published in "Peintures-1937-1951."