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
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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