Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROSE PIPER (1917 - 2005)
I Know My Robe's Goin' to Fit Me Well. I Tried It On, At the Gates of Hell.

Acrylic on masonite, 1988. 300x228 mm; 11 3/4x9 inches. Signed in acrylic, lower left.

Provenance: the artist, with her ink stamp and label on the frame back; Bomani Gallery, San Francisco; John Axelrod, Boston (1994); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011).

This is also one of the 10 paintings in the artist's Slave Song Series.