Mose Tolliver (AL, 1925-2006), Self Portrait with Pipe

Polychrome paint on found board, signed to lower center, unframed.

32 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

Mose Tolliver was born to sharecroppers near Montgomery, Alabama. After a severe injury in the late 1960s, he turned to painting as a means to combat boredom and pain. Tolliver's work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the American Folk Art Museum, New York, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.

Good estate condition.

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