Mambo Laily

Andre Pierre, Haitian, 1914 - 2005

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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

History 85.01, African and African American Studies 88.23, The Black Atlantic, Ernesto Mercado-Montero, Winter 2024

Provenance

Jack and Micaela Mendelsohn, Washington, D.C.; given to present collection, 2014.

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