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LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Untitled (Village Steet Scene).
Oil on linen canvas, 1949. 610x502 mm; 24x19 3/4 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "France" in oil, lower right recto. Inscribed "Céline Tabary à Vermelles" in ink on the stretcher bar, verso.
Provenance: acquired at Sloans and Kenyon, Chevy Chase, MD, September 15, 2006; private Washington, DC collection.
This picturesque landscape typifies 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. Jones returned to France after World War II, and lived there intermittently through the 1960s. In this year, 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, and a painting award for Petite Ville en hautes-Pyrenées from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
