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LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Gizele at Paris.
Pen and ink with wash on wove paper, 1966. 641x495 mm; 25 1/4x19 1/2 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Paris" in ink, lower right recto. Signed, titled and inscribed "Pen & ink by Loïs Mailou Jones, 1220 Quincy St. N.E. Wash. D.C. 20017" in pencil on the drawing's mat, verso.
Provenance: gift from the artist, Céline Marie Tabary; thence by descent to a private collection, Paris. Céline Marie Tabary (1908 – 1993) was one of Jones' dearest and oldest artist friends; they met when Jones was in her first year of study in Paris in 1937. Tabary soon joined Jones, emigrating to Washington, DC in 1938 where she taught at Howard University. She worked as an artist and art professor in Washington DC through the early 1950s before returning to France.
