Oct 07, 2008 - Sale 2156

Sale 2156 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 12,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1988)
Fille assise avec chat.

Oil on canvas, 1938. 800x630 mm; 31 1/2x24 3/4 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Paris" in oil, lower right.

Provenance: private collection, Cannes, France.

This beautiful Impressionist portrait was made during Loïs Mailou Jones's first year in Paris. Awarded a Howard University scholarship to study at the Académie Julian during 1937-38, she studied landscape and portraiture. She met the Symbolist Émile Bernard, who encouraged and befriended the young artist. She returned to the United States, to teach at Howard University in the fall of 1938. Benjamin, p. 29.