Oct 07, 2008 - Sale 2156

Sale 2156 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1988)
Still Life.

Watercolor on wove paper, mounted on cardstock, 1931. 430x550 mm; 17x21 3/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right.

Provenance: private Georgia collection.

This early watercolor is from Jones's first year as a professor at Howard University where she joined the fine art faculty of James A. Porter and James Lesesne Wells.