Oct 06, 2011 - Sale 2255

Sale 2255 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)
Quarrie on the Hudson.

Etching and aquatint, circa 1940s. 216x178 mm; 8 1/2x7 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce print.

This is the first etching by Jones to appear at auction, a medium with which she experimented during her time at Howard University in the 1940s. Another impression of this print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.