Mambo Laily
Andre Pierre, Haitian, 1914 - 2005
about 1965
Oil on Masonite
Panel: 10 × 7 15/16 in. (25.4 × 20.1 cm)
Frame: 10 15/16 × 8 3/4 × 1 5/16 in. (27.8 × 22.3 × 3.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Micaela and Jack Mendelsohn, Class of 1956
2014.97.1
Geography
Place Made: Haiti, Caribbean, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Americas
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, left center edge, in black paint: A.Pierre [underlined]; inscribed, lower center, beneath figure: Mambo Lailly
Course History
ANTH 7, Haiti and Its Visitors, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2019
Spanish 60.04, Caribbean Afrodecendancies, Magdalena Lopez, Spring 2023
Provenance
Jack and Micaela Mendelsohn, Washington, D.C.; given to present collection, 2014.
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