Village Scene: Wedding

Village Scene: Wedding, ca. 1980

  • Telemaque Obin, Haitian, born 1924

Oil on wood

  • Framed: 29 1/8 × 35 × 1 9/16 inches (74 × 88.9 × 4 cm) Unframed: 24 × 29 3/4 inches (61 × 75.6 cm)

Gift of Lina R. Assad

1990.347

Department

African American Art

  • People
  • Lovers
  • Men
  • Women
  • Oil
  • Wood
  • Mountains
  • Trees
  • Houses
  • Church
  • Village
  • Landscape (environment)
  • Painting (visual work)
  • Wedding
  • Cap-haïtien

Details

Signed, Marks, Inscriptions

Signed, lower right: T. Obin

Inscribed, lower right under signature: Cap Haitien

Provenance

1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Rights Status

Telemaque Obin, Village Scene: Wedding, ca. 1980, oil on wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lina R. Assad, 1990.347.

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