Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 01:00AM EST
Lot 57
SONIE JOI RUFFIN "Prosperity" (2010 Quilt)
Sold for
$2,000
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Sonie Joi Thompson-Ruffin
(Missouri, b. 1951)
Prosperity, 2010
Quilted cotton and silk, cowrie shells
81" x 34"
The work is accompanied by text of the same title, giving further context for the piece. The text is pencil-signed and dated. "Sonie" signature tag sewn to the reverse.
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin is a celebrated contemporary fibers artist, author, and lecturer. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in the White House Rotunda and the Smithsonian Museum of Art, and in 2019, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art purchased her tour-de-force quilt “20 Odd.” Thompson-Ruffin is the author of The Soulful Art of African American Quilts (2007).
Very good condition.
(Missouri, b. 1951)
Prosperity, 2010
Quilted cotton and silk, cowrie shells
81" x 34"
The work is accompanied by text of the same title, giving further context for the piece. The text is pencil-signed and dated. "Sonie" signature tag sewn to the reverse.
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin is a celebrated contemporary fibers artist, author, and lecturer. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in the White House Rotunda and the Smithsonian Museum of Art, and in 2019, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art purchased her tour-de-force quilt “20 Odd.” Thompson-Ruffin is the author of The Soulful Art of African American Quilts (2007).