Loïs Mailou Jones Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Loïs Mailou Jones Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 03, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) The Black Man in White America - Van Deusen.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) The Black Man in White America - Van Deusen. Pen and ink with gouache additions on cream wove paper, circa 1944. 279x559 mm;11x22 inches. Provenance: the James K. Hill collection. This Loïs Mailou Jones drawing is the original design for the illustrated wrap-around dusk jacket of John C Van Deusen's book The Black Man in White America. This early study of the African American experience was published by the Associated Publishers of Washington, DC in 1944.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 03, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) The Black Man in White America - Van Deusen.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) The Black Man in White America - Van Deusen. Steel engraving plate, mounted on a wooden block, circa 1944. 540x546x22 mm; 10¼x21¼x⅞ inches. Provenance: the James K. Hill collection. This block was used to print Jones's illustration for the wrap-around dusk jacket of John C Van Deusen's book The Black Man in White America. This early study of the African American experience was published by the Associated Publishers of Washington, DC in 1944.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 03, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Les Vendeuses du Tissus.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Les Vendeuses du Tissus. Oil on linen canvas, 1961. 489x1003 mm; 19¼x39½ inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Haiti" in oil, lower left recto. Signed and date in oil, lower left verso. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago; private collection, Michigan. Illustrated: Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, The Life and Art of Loïs Mailou Jones, p. 87. This vibrant scene of cloth sellers in Port-au-Prince is an important painting from Loïs Mailou Jones's Haitian period. Jones made a dynamic breakthrough away from her earlier Impressionist style of painting with these modern paintings. Jones took her first trip to Haiti in the summer of 1954 with the invitation of President Paul E. Magloire for a portrait commission, and made subsequent annual trips with her husband Pierre-Noël through 1969. Beginning in 1961, in Les Vendeuses du Tissus and other paintings such as Parade des Paysans and Bazar Du Quai, Port Au Prince, Haiti, Jones found inspiration in the abstract forms of the busy outdoor markets, using flattened areas of pattern and color. Today, these striking early Haitian paintings are some of the artist's most sought after and distinctive works.
Swann Auction Galleries
Sep. 27, 2024
Lois Mailou Jones. Unfinished Street Scene, oil
Est: $600 - $800
(American, 1905-1998) Oil on canvas affixed to board, signed "Lois M. Jones" ll, 20 x 16 unframed
Alex Cooper
Sep. 27, 2024
Lois Mailou Jones. Haitian Street Scene, oil
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
(American, 1905-1998) Oil on board, signed "Lois M. Jones" lr, sight size: 17 3/4 x 15 1/2 in., framed size: 21 x 19 in.
Alex Cooper
Sep. 21, 2024
Rare Original 1930s Negro History Chart Poster
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Jones, Lois Mailou 1905 - 1998 Important Events and Dates in Negro History Offset 1936 27.1 x 19.2 in. (69 x 49 cm) Printer: no information Condition Details: (B+/A-) on linen (old), small tears, tape, and tiny losses in the margins, chart by Carter Godwin Woodson, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History#USA #World War II #Flags #Army
PosterConnection Inc.
Sep. 08, 2024
AFRICAN AMERICAN LOIS MAILOU JONES OIL PAINTING
Est: $100 - $150
Oil on board painting by Lois Mailou Jones, 1905 to 1998, an African American artist associated with the Harlem Renaissance. The fine painting depicts a view of a river and a village house against the backdrop of mountains. Signed by the artist in the lower right. Housed in a gilt frame. Artworks of the artist can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. One of a kind artwork.
Antique Arena Inc
Aug. 31, 2024
LOIS MAILOU JONES AMERICAN CHARCOAL PORTRAIT PAINTING
Est: $100 - $150
Lois Mailou Jones, American, 1905 to 1998, charcoal painting on paper depicting a portrait of a semi nude woman. Signed lower right. Framed. Lois Mailou Jones was an American artist and educator, known for African figure genre, landscape, still life and mask painting. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and received a graduate degree in design from the Design Art School of Boston before deciding to pursue a BA in art education from Howard University, graduating in 1945. By this point, she transitioned to painting instead of design. She traveled extensively, and while living in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s, she was well known as an artist. In the 1950s, she was a guest professor in Port au Prince, Haiti, and later helped Howard University research and document contemporary Haitian art. In the late 1960s, she traveled to 11 African countries and interviewed contemporary African artists. Her extensive travels influenced her work, and it was notable that she defied norms that were expected of mid century African American painters and painted a wide variety of subjects. In the 1990s, well into her 80s, she continued to produce work. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Portrait Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Palace in Haiti. American Fine Art, Landscape and Village Paintings, Wall Art, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.
Antique Arena Inc
Aug. 04, 2024
AMERICAN WATERCOLOR PAINTING BY LOIS MAILOU JONES
Est: $100 - $150
Lois Mailou Jones, American, 1905 to 1998, watercolor painting on paper a rural landscape view. Signed lower left. Framed. Lois Mailou Jones was an American artist and educator, known for African figure genre, landscape, still life and mask painting. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and received a graduate degree in design from the Design Art School of Boston before deciding to pursue a BA in art education from Howard University, graduating in 1945. By this point, she transitioned to painting instead of design. She traveled extensively, and while living in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s, she was well known as an artist. In the 1950s, she was a guest professor in Port au Prince, Haiti, and later helped Howard University research and document contemporary Haitian art. In the late 1960s, she traveled to 11 African countries and interviewed contemporary African artists. Her extensive travels influenced her work, and it was notable that she defied norms that were expected of mid century African American painters and painted a wide variety of subjects. In the 1990s, well into her 80s, she continued to produce work. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Portrait Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Palace in Haiti. American Fine Art, Landscape and Village Paintings, Wall Art, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.
Antique Arena Inc
Jun. 30, 2024
LOIS MAILOU JONES (MA/DC, 1905-1998)
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
LOIS MAILOU JONES (MA/DC, 1905-1998) "Haiti Harbor in Rain, Port-au-Prince", signed lower right, dated '59, and marked 'Haiti", with inscription verso in artist's hand giving title and address in Washington DC. Housed in bleached oak cove frame, matted under glass, OS: 29" x 33", SS: 18 1/2" x 22 1/2".
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Jun. 30, 2024
LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOR PAINTING BY LOIS MAILOU JONES
Est: $100 - $150
Watercolor on paper painting by Lois Mailou Jones, 1905 to 1998, an African-American artist associated with the Harlem Renaissance. The artwork depicts a view of an old town canal. Signed by the artist in the lower left. White mat, golden frame. Collectible Graphic Art, Female Artists.
Antique Arena Inc
Jun. 15, 2024
Lois Mailou Jones, "Lobsterville Beach" Martha's Vineyard
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Lois Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998), beach "Lobsterville Beach" Martha's Vineyard, oil on artist board, signed L/R, 9" x 18", framed 15 1/2" x 24 1/2". Provenance: Westbury, New York collection.
Kaminski Auctions
Jun. 02, 2024
Loïs Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998) - Stormy Sky
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Loïs Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998) - Stormy Sky Signed Loïs M./Jones bottom left, watercolor and pencil on paper laid down to card 11 7/8 x 16 1/8 in. (30.2 x 41cm) Provenance Property from a Manhattan Collector, New York, New York.
Freeman's | Hindman
Jun. 01, 2024
Lois Mailou Jones (USA 1905-1998) Street Scene Oil
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (AMERICAN / FRANCE, 1905 - 1998) La Butte, Montmartre, Paris. Oil on linen canvas, 1950. 546x648 mm; 21½x25½ inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "©" and "Montmartre" in oil, lower right recto. Signed, titled and inscribed "Exhibited 22nd Biennial, Corcoran" in ink on the stretcher bars, verso. Provenance: collection of the artist, Washington, DC; the estate of the artist; private collection, Florida. Exhibited: Twenty-Second Corcoran Biennial of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 1 - May 16, 1951, with the labels on the stretcher bars; Explorations in the City of Life: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-65, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 18 - June 2, 1996, with the label on the back board. Illustrated: Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Explorations in the City of Life: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-65, p. 49, pl. 3. This street scene on the hill of Montmartre is a superb example of Loïs Mailou Jones's Paris oeuvre. Jones, who first lived in Paris from 1937-38, returned there frequently after World War II. She often painted Parisian street scenes en plein air with her active Impressionist brushwork. These street scenes were important subjects for her, and she continued to produce them through the mid-1960s. Conwill pp. 46-47.
Joshua Kodner
May. 18, 2024
Lois Mailou Jones, 1905-1998, Racetrack
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
Lois Mailou Jones 1905-1998 Racetrack 1957 oil/canvas 16-1/2 x 32-1/2 inches signed and dated
Black Art Auction
May. 12, 2024
Lois Mailou Jones (American, 1905- 1998) Landscape Watercolor
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Medium: Watercolor Painting Size: 13.5 x 10.5 inches Frame Size: 22 x 19 inches Condition: This artwork is in good overall condition for its age. Signature: Signed Artist: Lois Mailou Jones (American, 1905- 1998)
Topwells
Apr. 27, 2024
LOIS MAILOU JONES AMERICAN 1905-1998
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Boats at Menemsha, watercolor, 14 x 19 1/2 in (35.6 x 49.5 cm), signed lower right, signed additionally verso and titled, PROVENANCE: Private collection Long Island, NY
Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC
Apr. 04, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Watercolor on wove paper, 1966. 267x368 mm; 10½x14½ inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: acquired from Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, private collection, Illinois.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Les Vendeuses du Tissus.
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Les Vendeuses du Tissus. Oil on linen canvas, 1961. 489x1003 mm; 19¼x39½ inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Haiti" in oil, lower left recto. Signed and date in oil, lower left verso. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago; private collection, Michigan. Illustrated: Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, The Life and Art of Loïs Mailou Jones, p. 87. This vibrant scene of cloth sellers in Port-au-Prince is an important painting from Loïs Mailou Jones's Haitian period. Jones made a dynamic breakthrough away from her earlier Impressionist style of painting with these modern paintings. Jones took her first trip to Haiti in the summer of 1954 with the invitation of President Paul E. Magloire for a portrait commission, and made subsequent annual trips with her husband Pierre-Noël through 1969. Beginning in 1961, in Les Vendeuses du Tissus and other paintings such as Parade des Paysans and Bazar Du Quai, Port Au Prince, Haiti, Jones found inspiration in the abstract forms of the busy outdoor markets, using flattened areas of pattern and color. Today, these striking early Haitian paintings are some of the artist's most sought after and distinctive works.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)) Ville d'Houdain, France.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)) Ville d'Houdain, France. Color screenprint on Arches paper, 1993. 686x864 mm; 27x34 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/225 in pencil, lower margin. This monumental print revisits 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. In 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.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Untitled (A house in a rural setting).
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Untitled (A house in a rural setting). Watercolor on wove paper, 1956. 248x349 mm; 9¾x13¾ inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: private collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) La Butte, Montmartre, Paris.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) La Butte, Montmartre, Paris. Oil on linen canvas, 1950. 546x648 mm; 21½x25½ inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "©" and "Montmartre" in oil, lower right recto. Signed, titled and inscribed "Exhibited 22nd Biennial, Corcoran" in ink on the stretcher bars, verso. Provenance: collection of the artist, Washington, DC; the estate of the artist; private collection, Florida. Exhibited: Twenty-Second Corcoran Biennial of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 1 - May 16, 1951, with the labels on the stretcher bars; Explorations in the City of Life: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-65, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 18 - June 2, 1996, with the label on the back board. Illustrated: Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Explorations in the City of Life: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-65, p. 49, pl. 3. This street scene on the hill of Montmartre is a superb example of Loïs Mailou Jones's Paris oeuvre. Jones, who first lived in Paris from 1937-38, returned there frequently after World War II. She often painted Parisian street scenes en plein air with her active Impressionist brushwork. These street scenes were important subjects for her, and she continued to produce them through the mid-1960s. Conwill pp. 46-47.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Esquisse for Symbols, D’Afrique II.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Esquisse for Symbols, D'Afrique II. Acrylic on wove paper, 1983. 304x203 mm; 12x8 inches. Signed and dated in acrylic, lower right. From the Africa Series. Provenance: acquired from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Auction, Washington, DC; private collection, Illinois (1996). This vibrantly colored work on paper is an example of the artist's body of work inspired by her trips to Haiti and from West African imagery. Large canvases like Mère du Senegal, 1985 and Initiation Liberia, 1983, in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, are other examples of Jones' use of the grid composition for symbols and figuration. Jones took her first trip to Haiti in the summer of 1954 with the invitation of President Paul E. Magliore for his portrait commission. She made many subsequent annual trips with her Haitian husband Pierre-Noël. Jones continued to have painting trips and exhibitions there after his death in 1982 through the 1990s. Hanzal p. 127.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 29, 2024
LOIS MAILOU JONES OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS 34"
Est: $100 - $400
LOIS MAILOU JONES OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS -28.5" X 34" APPROX -VERY GOOD PRE OWNED CONDITION MINOR WEAR, CRAZING, WEAR TO FRAME -DP11924
DejaVu Estate Sales & Auctions
Jan. 18, 2024
LOIS MAILOU JONES, American 1905-1998, Gorillas, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
LOIS MAILOU JONES American, 1905-1998 Gorillas oil on canvas signed lower right "Jones", inscribed and signed on the reverse "For Shirley / and Cecil / Lois"
Shannon's
Jan. 14, 2024
LOIS MAILOU JONES (1905-1998)
Est: $600 - $800
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) watercolor dated 1951. Signed Lois M Jones 51 lower right. Signed on verso. was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. Excellent condition. Art measures 12" x 16", frame measures 15" x 19".
Neely Auction
Jan. 14, 2024
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), Drawing of a Naked Woman
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
The height is 27.8 inches and the width is 22 inches.
Topwells
Dec. 02, 2023
Lois Mailou Jones, 1905-1998, France
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
Lois Mailou Jones 1905-1998 France 1947 mixed media on paper 19 x 24 inches signed and dated Provenance: Swann Galleries, 6/9/2005, lot 126; private collection, Dallas, TX.
Black Art Auction
Oct. 31, 2023
Seven Assorted African American Themed Works of Art, Including a Signed Lois Mailou Jones Poster (Water Damaged)
Est: $50 - $100
Seven Assorted African American Themed Works of Art, Including a Signed Lois Mailou Jones Poster (Water Damaged),
Weschler's
Oct. 19, 2023
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Untitled (Martha's Vineyard View).
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Untitled (Martha's Vineyard View). Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1932. 305x457 mm; 12x18 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: the James K. Hill collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2023
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel. Steel engraving plate, mounted on a wooden block, circa 1939. 241x546x22 mm; 9 x21 x 7/8 inches. Provenance: the James K. Hill collection. This block was used to print Jones's illustration on the wrap-around dusk jacket of Horace Mann Bond's book Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel. It was first published by the Associated Publishers of Washington, DC in 1939. Bond was an author and educator who served as President of Lincoln University and was the father of political and civil rights activist, Julian Bond.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2023
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Josiah Henson.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Josiah Henson. Charcoal on buff wove paper, 1938. 406x330 mm; 16x13 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower right recto. Signed and inscribed "signed April 28, 1990" in ink, verso. Provenance: the James K. Hill collection. Illustrated: Carter G. Woodson, African Heroes and Heroines, 1939. This portrait drawing is one of 30 that Jones created for Carter G. Woodson's book. According to Jones's inscription in ink on the frame back, this charcoal drawing portrait was also later published as a cover illustration for a 1971 publication of Carter G. Woodson's pamphlet African Then and Now. Josiah Henson (1789 – 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of Ontario. Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is believed to have inspired the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Following the success of Stowe's novel, Henson issued an expanded version of his memoir in 1858, Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life. Interest in his life continued, and nearly two decades later, his life story was updated and published as Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson in 1876.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2023
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Martin Delany.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Martin Delany. Charcoal on buff wove paper, 1938. 406x330 mm; 16x13 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower right. Provenance: the James K. Hill collection. Illustrated: Carter G. Woodson, African Heroes and Heroines, 1939. This portrait drawing is one of 30 that Jones created for Carter G. Woodson's book. According to Jones' inscription in ink on the frame back, this charcoal drawing portrait was also later published as a cover illustration for a 1971 publication of Carter G. Woodson's pamphlet African Then and Now. Martin Robison Delany (1812 – 1885) was an American abolitionist, journalist, physician, military officer and writer who was arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for Africans." Born as a free person of color in Charles Town, Virginia, Delany trained as a physician's assistant. During the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsburgh, Delany treated patients, even though many doctors and residents fled the city out of fear of contamination. Beginning in 1847, he worked alongside Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York to publish the North Star In 1850, Delany was one of the first three black men admitted to Harvard Medical School, but all were dismissed after a few weeks because of widespread protests by white students. Delany dreamed of establishing a settlement in West Africa. He visited Liberia, a United States colony founded by the American Colonization Society, and lived in Canada for several years, but when the American Civil War began, he returned to the United States. When the United States Colored Troops were created in 1863, he recruited for them. Commissioned as a major in February 1865, Delany became the first African-American field grade officer in the United States Army. After the Civil War, Delany went to the South, settling in South Carolina. There he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau and became politically active, including in the Colored Conventions Movement. Delany ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor as an Independent Republican.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2023
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Menemsha Creek.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998) Menemsha Creek. Drypoint on cream wove paper, circa 1940s. 177x215 mm; 7x8 3/8 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. This drypoint of Martha's Vineyard, also titled Menemsha, is a scarce, early print. Intaglio printmaking (etching, drypoint and aquatint) is a medium in which Jones experimented briefly during her time at Howard University in the early 1940s. Two other etchings of hers, The Quarry and Les Clochards, Paris, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jul. 26, 2023
Lois Mailou Jones 1905-1998 Landscape Oil Painting
Est: $100 - $1,000
Lois Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998). An original watercolor painting on Arches style paper. Titled "Personajes" ("Characters"). A Haitian harbor landscape depicting a seawall with architectural elements, a junk style fishing boat, water birds in flight, and other elements. Artist signature to lower right LOIS M. JONES. The artist's Haiti-inspired works are among her most widely known paintings. Her work is held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art. Presented under glass with a mat border in a decorative wood frame. Sight size measures approximately 17.5" x 23.5". Dimensions: 24.5 X 30.5 X .5 in. Condition: Good overall condition having minor age related surface wear. Frame having moderate storage wear to edges and corners. Estate fresh to the market. Shipping: Hill Auction Gallery does not offer in-house shipping for this item. Gallery will refer third party shippers for all domestic and international buyers. Purchaser pick up available upon request.
Hill Auction Gallery
Jul. 01, 2023
Lois Mailou JONES: House - Watercolor
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), an important African-American artist, watercolor depicting a house with a white picket fence in a rural setting, signed lower right and dated '56. [Art: 9" H x 13" W; Frame: 16" H x 20" W].
Roland Auctions NY
Jun. 13, 2023
Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) American/Haitian
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) Watercolor on Paper, Signed, Measures ( 9.5 x 11 inches ) w/frame ( 15 x 28 inches ) For more than fifty years, Lois Mailou Jones has enjoyed a consistently successful career as a painter, teacher, book illustrator, and textile designer. Her art spans three continents: North America, Europe, and Africa, and she has been represented in more than seventy group shows and mounted twenty one-woman exhibitions since 1937. Jones was born in Boston in 1905, the second of two children of Thomas Vreeland and Caroline Dorinda Jones. Jones's Carolina, as well as the climate and aftermath of the Harlem Renaissance, motivated the depiction of African and African- American themes in Jones's early paintings. She became associated with the Harmon Foundation shortly after moving to Washington, and was a frequent participant in its exhibitions during the 1930s.
Cutler Bay Auctions
May. 20, 2023
Lois Mailou Jones, 1905-1998, Portrait of Leopold Sedar Senghor
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Lois Mailou Jones 1905-1998 Portrait of Leopold Sedar Senghor 1996 Color screenprint 16-1/8 x 10-1/4 inches (image) 20-3/4 x 16-3/4 inches (sheet) Published by the Limited Editions Club Signed and numbered 38/60
Black Art Auction
May. 20, 2023
Lois Mailou Jones, 1905-1998, Winter Night
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Lois Mailou Jones 1905-1998 Winter Night 1996 Color screenprint 20-1/2 x 16-5/8 inches (full sheet) 16 x 12-7/8 inches (image) Published by the Limited Editions Club Signed and numbered 38/60
Black Art Auction
Mar. 25, 2023
LOIS M JONES AMERICAN 1905-1988
Est: $500 - $1,000
Portrait of a Woman, watercolor, 18 x 14 in (45.7 x 35.6 cm), framed 31 x 27 in (78.7 x 68.6 cm), signed lower left
Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC
Mar. 10, 2023
Jane Dabney Shackelford (American 1895-1979), 'The Child's Story of the Negro' with Illustrations by Loïs Mailou Jones (American 1905-1998), Together with Nine Woodblocks for the Original Illustrations
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Jane Dabney Shackelford (American, 1895-1979) The Child's Story of the Negro with Illustrations by Loïs Mailou Jones (American 1905-1998), Together with Nine Woodblocks for the Original Illustrations The book, published by The Associated Publishers, Washington, DC, 1938; and the blocks, each a metal plate mounted on wood
Weschler's
Mar. 10, 2023
Loïs Mailou Jones (American 1905-1998), Group of Seven Woodblocks for the Original Illustrations to 'African Heroes and Heroines' by Carter G. Woodson (American 1875-1950), Largest: 8 x 12 in (20.3 x 30.5 cm)
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Loïs Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998) Group of Seven Woodblocks for the Original Illustrations to African Heroes and Heroines by Carter G. Woodson (American 1875-1950) Each a copper plate mounted on wood block
Weschler's
Mar. 10, 2023
Elise Palmer Derricotte, Geneva Calcier Turner, Jessie Hailstock Roy, 'Word Pictures of the Great' with Illustrations by Loïs Mailou Jones (American 1905-1998), Together with 18 Woodblocks for the original illustrations
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Elise Palmer Derricotte, Geneva Calcier Turner and Jessie Hailstock Roy (American, 20th Century) Word Pictures of the Great with Illustrations by Loïs Mailou Jones (American 1905-1998), Together with Eighteen Woodblocks for the Original Illustrations The book, written by three staff members of George Bell Elementary School, Washington, DC and published by The Associated Publishers, Washington, DC, 1941 and inscribed 'Greetings to my good friend/ Edith DeBruhl/ May 25, 1960/ Elise P. Derricotte' on frontispiece. The blocks, each metal mounted on a wood block.
Weschler's
Feb. 11, 2023
Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) American
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) Watercolor on paper , Signed , measures 15" x21.5" , 25" x 30"
Cutler Bay Auctions
Jan. 14, 2023
Lois Mailou Jones, Parisian street scene, O/C
Est: $5,000 - $6,000
Jones, Lois Mailou (American, 1905-1998). Untitled, depicting a Parisian street scene. Oil on canvas. Signed l.r. Sight: 22 3/4" x 18 3/4" Frame: 29 1/2" x 25 3/4". Condition: Craquelure throughout.
Quinn's Auction Galleries
Dec. 01, 2022
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998, AMERICAN) Untitled (Still Life Abstraction).
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998, AMERICAN) Untitled (Still Life Abstraction). Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 1964. 469x569 mm; 18 1/2x23 1/2 inches. Signed Lois M. Jones and dated '64, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 01, 2022
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998, AMERICAN) Untitled (Cabris).
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998, AMERICAN) Untitled (Cabris). Watercolor on Whatman drawing board, 1953. 762x558 mm; 30x22 inches. Signed Löis Mailou Jones and dated '53, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection. Löis Mailou Jones painted many colorful landscapes around the sunny hills of this picturesque medieval town. This large watercolor typifies her postwar approach to landscape. Cabris is a picturesque village in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, and was the hometown of her close friend Céline Tabary. Jones first visited the town in 1937 during her first year of studies in Paris, and returned numerous times over a period of some 50 years. Jones and her husband Pierre-Noël also were married there in 1953.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 13, 2022
Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) American
Est: $500 - $5,000
Lois Mailou Jones (1905 - 1998) Watercolor on Paper , Signed , measures 14" x 18" , w/frame 23" x 27"
Cutler Bay Auctions