FAITH RINGGOLD | Listen to the Trees

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

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Description

Faith Ringgold
Listen to the Trees
signed and dated May 14, 1997
acrylic on stitched canvas with stitched dyed fabric
76 1/2 by 80 in. 194.3 by 203.2 cm.

Provenance

ACA Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998

Exhibited

New York, ACA Galleries, Faith Ringgold: Coming to Jones Road and Other Stories..., October - November 1998

Catalogue Note

"I read feverishly, especially everything that James Baldwin had written on relationships between Blacks and Whites in America. Baldwin understood, I felt, the disparity between black and white people as well as anyone; but I had something to add — the visual depiction of the way we are and look. I wanted my paintings to express this moment I knew was history. I wanted to give my woman’s point of view to this period.” Faith Ringgold