Oct 07, 2008 - Sale 2156

Sale 2156 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1988)
Temple of Castor and Pollux, Rome.

Oil on panel, 1938. 380x455 mm; 15x18 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Roma" in oil, lower left recto. Titled and dated in pencil in another hand verso.

Provenance: acquired directly from 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.