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Untitled (Faces)

20th century

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A gouache on cardboard painting depicting masks and dancing figures. The painting is done in bright colors, with three yellow dancing figures appearing in the center of a dark bluish-purple stage. On either side of the stage are columns topped by yellow flames. The background is a bright turquoise. At top center, a weeping purple and white theater mask is slipping off a large, graphic purple and white face. At the top and behind the face is a design or fuchsia and orange concentric circles. The painting has a fuchsia border all the way around. There are no inscriptions, front or back.

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Catalog reference: 2023.111.60

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