Painted terra cotta, 1961. 152x102x76 mm; 4x6x3 inches on the original 2-inch high wooden base. Signed at the rear.
Provenance: private New York collection.
This beautiful and poignant head is also a later work by Barthé from his Jamaica period. It is a smaller version of the 16 1/2 inch bronze in the collection of Samella Lewis.
