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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) The Roman Forum.
Oil on canvas, 1938. 500x610 mm; 19 3/4x24 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Roma" in oil, lower right recto (over a fainter, smaller signature). Signed, titled, dated and inscribed with the artist's Washington, DC address in pencil, verso on the stretcher bars.
Provenance: the artist; private Maryland collection.
Before returning to the U.S. from France, Jones received an extension of her General Education Board fellowship and visited Rome, Venice and Milan.
