LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Rue de L'Abreuvoir, Paris.
Gouache on board, 1948. 381x457 mm; 15x18 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Paris" in oil, lower right recto. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Paris" in pencil, upper right verso. Inscribed "Rue De L'Abreuvoir, Paris (gouache) by Loïs Mailou Jones" in ink across the verso.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; thence by descent to a private collection, Washington, DC.
This charming Montmartre street corner scene is an unusual example of a gouache from Loïs Mailou Jones's Paris oeuvre. Jones, who first lived in Paris from 1937-38, returned there frequently after World War II. She painted several views up this hill towards Sacré-Cœur, and many other landscapes around Montmartre and Paris en plein air. These street scenes were important subjects for her, and she continued to produce them through the mid-1960s. Conwill pp. 46-47.
