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LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Le Sacré-Cœur, Montmartre, Paris.
Oil on canvas, circa 1947-49. 470x550 mm; 18x21 1/2 inches. Signed and inscribed "Paris" in oil, lower right.
Provenance: private collection, France.
Jones, who first lived in Paris from 1937-38, returned there after World War II in the summer of 1945. She painted many street scenes of Montmartre en plein aire; several other similar views are in the collection of the Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Nöel Trust. Paris street scenes were important subjects for her, which she continued to produce through the mid-1960s, generally with thinner applications of paint. Conwill pp. 46-47.
