Artworks

Les Fleurettes Africaines # 5, 1987

  • Artist

    Colin Chase

  • Title

    Les Fleurettes Africaines # 5

  • Date

    1987

  • Medium

    Polychromed wood

  • Dimensions

    66 × 44 × 67 in. (167.6 × 111.8 × 170.2 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist

  • Object Number

    1988.2

Les Fleurettes Africaines #5 abstracts botanical elements into a bouquet of dramatically shifting planes, sharp angles, and bright colors. The work takes its title and form from “Fleurette Africaine,” by Duke Ellington, embodying the movements, dissonances, and energy of the song. Colin Chase’s flowers also allude to an experience of diaspora. Uprooted and transplanted, his African flowers have become something else, flourishing in a new way under the distinctly African-American influence of jazz.


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Artworks

Les Fleurettes Africaines # 5, 1987

  • Artist

    Colin Chase

  • Title

    Les Fleurettes Africaines # 5

  • Date

    1987

  • Medium

    Polychromed wood

  • Dimensions

    66 × 44 × 67 in. (167.6 × 111.8 × 170.2 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist

  • Object Number

    1988.2

Les Fleurettes Africaines #5 abstracts botanical elements into a bouquet of dramatically shifting planes, sharp angles, and bright colors. The work takes its title and form from “Fleurette Africaine,” by Duke Ellington, embodying the movements, dissonances, and energy of the song. Colin Chase’s flowers also allude to an experience of diaspora. Uprooted and transplanted, his African flowers have become something else, flourishing in a new way under the distinctly African-American influence of jazz.


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