Apr 04, 2024 - Sale 2664

Sale 2664 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998))
Ville d'Houdain, France.

Color screenprint on Arches paper, 1993. 686x864 mm; 27x34 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/225 in pencil, lower margin.

This monumental print revisits the colorful Impressionist scenes Loïs Mailou Jones painted around the Alpes Maritimes, near Cabris, the hometown of her friend Céline Tabary in the south of France. In 1949, she received the John Hope Purchase Prize for her landscape Ville d'Houdain, France at the Eighth Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists, Atlanta University.