Feb 17, 2009 - Sale 2169

Sale 2169 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)
The Roman Forum.

Oil on canvas, 1938. 500x610 mm; 19 3/4x24 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Roma" in oil, lower right recto (over a fainter, smaller signature). Signed, titled, dated and inscribed with the artist's Washington, DC address in pencil, verso on the stretcher bars.

Provenance: 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.