LOT DETAILS

Materials:

acrylic on canvas and painted, dye and pieced fabric

Measurements:

68.50 in. (174.00 cm.) (height) by 68.27 in. (173.40 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

It was exhibited nationally, traveling to many museums in her first major retrospective Yet this is only the second of her story quilts to come to auction - her 1989 Maya's Quilt of Life, part of the Art Collection of the Maya Angelou, was sold at Swann Galleries on September 15, 2015

Provenance:

gift from the artist; private collection, New York Exhibited: Faith Ringgold: A 25 Year Survey, travelling exhibiton, April 1, 1990 - February 14, 1993, including the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY; the High Museum, Atlanta, GA, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, and several other museums; Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, Los Angeles County Musuem of Art, Los Angeles, October 22, 2000 - February 25, 2001 Illustrated: Flomenhaft, Eleanor and Lowery Stokes Sims and Thalia Gouma-Peterson Faith Ringgold: A 25 Year Survey, fig 9, p 26