About the Artwork
Café, Paris
1929
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1891 - 1981
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 23 5/8 × 28 7/8 inches (60 × 73.3 cm) Framed: 27 3/4 inches × 33 inches × 2 3/4 inches (70.5 × 83.8 × 7 cm)
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African American Art
Museum Purchase, Ernest & Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund
2018.71
© Valerie Gerrard Browne / Chicago History Museum / Bridgeman Images
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Provenance
Valerie Gerrard Browne and Mara Motley (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
2018-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Murrel, Denise. The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven, London, 2024, p. 210.
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© Valerie Gerrard Browne / Chicago History Museum / Bridgeman Images
Archibald John Motley, Jr., Café, Paris, 1929, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Ernest & Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, 2018.71.
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