DUSTI BONGE（1903-1993）

DUSTI BONGE（1903-1993）

SELF-PORTRAIT, 1939. 

OIL PASTEL ON PAPER, 11 1/2 X 8 1/2 IN. 

An archival 1957 photo of Dusti Bongé at her palette in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Publicity photo of Dusti and Archie Bongé in New York, 

on the occasion of their engagement, 1928. 

Bongé Family Archives.

Untitled Composition, 1987

ink/watercolor on paper

7 1/2 x 5 inches

initialed and dated at lower right

Untitled (Black Abstract), 1966

Pen and ink on paper

20 × 26 in | 50.8 × 66 cm

Dusti in her Biloxi, MS, studio in 1957

Untitled (Green Lines on Brown Ground), 1966

tempera on papr ，20 x 16 inches

Untitled (Curving Abstract Form), circa 1966

Watercolor on paper mounted on board

26 × 20 in | 66 × 50.8 cm

Untitled (Two Black Ovals), 1960, 

watercolor on paper, 16 1/2" x 22"

Untitled (Black Lines and Curve), c.1960

Ink on paper

26 × 20 in | 66 × 50.8 cm

Untitled, 1960

ink/watercolor on paper

26 x 20 inches

signed at lower left

Thrust, 1958, 

oil on canvas, 60" x 40", 

Collection of the Heckscher Museum of Art.

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Untitled (Black and Gray Rectangle), 1958

ink wash on paper

26 x 19 3/4 inches

Untitled (Black Oval), 1958

ink wash on paper

26 x 20 inches

Small World on Top of Small World (Songless Faces), 1958

Oil on canvas

38 3/4 × 28 in | 98.4 × 71.1 cm

Whirlpool, 1956

Oil on canvas

38 3/4 × 26 in | 98.4 × 66 cm

The Beckon , 1956

Oil on Masonite

48 x 32 in. (121.9 x 81.3 cm)

Swamp at Midnight, c. 1956, 

Oil on Masonite. 

Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Untitled (Black Abstract), 1956

ink on paper

26 x 12 1/2 inches

Untitled (Black and Peach Lines), c.1955

tempera on paper ， 17 x 14 inches

Untitled (Olmec Figure), c.1955

watercolor and ink on paper

17 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches

Untitled (Black Totems), 1955

mixed media on paper

26 x 20 inches

Untitled (Black Cone with Brown and Green), circa 1955

Tempera on paper

26 1/8 × 20 1/4 in | 66.4 × 51.4 cm

The Lion Roars the Fiddle Plays and there is Dancing in the Sun, 1955

Oil on Masonite

72 × 48 in | 182.9 × 121.9 cm

Magic Promised (No. 9-12), 1955

Oil on canvas

42 × 28 in | 106.7 × 71.1 cm

Untitled (Black Abstract), 1954

ink on paper

26 x 20 inches

Essence, circa 1954

Oil on Masonite

48 × 36 in | 121.9 × 91.4 cm

Through the Wall Seeing, 1954

Oil on Masonite

48 × 36 in | 121.9 × 91.4 cm

Refused at Revue, 1953

Oil on Masonite

24 × 44 1/8 in | 61 × 112.1 cm

Tecolutla, 1953

Oil and tempera on Masonite

27 3/4 × 20 in | 70.5 × 50.8 cm

#3, 1950/52

Oil on canvas

20 × 16 in | 50.8 × 40.6 cm

Untitled (Black Trapezoid with Rouge), c.1950

Water colour on paper

26 × 20 in | 66 × 50.8 cm

The Circus Cage, circa 1945

Oil on canvas

30 1/4 × 25 in | 76.8 × 63.5 cm

Circus Series, 1945

Oil on canvas

20 × 16 1/8 in | 50.8 × 41 cm

Woman in Striped Dress, circa 1945

Oil on canvas

24 × 20 in | 61 × 50.8 cm

Untitled (Inside the Circus Tent), c.1945

watercolor on paper

16 3/4 x 13 inches

Untitled (Surrealist Circus Scene), c.1945

mixed media on paper

16 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches

Mother and Child I, 1944

Oil on canvas

20 × 26 in | 50.8 × 66 cm

Sunflowers and Squash, 1944

Untitled (Surrealist Composition in Yellow, Black and White), 1943

Oil on canvas

22 × 18 in | 55.9 × 45.7 cm

Still Life, 1942

Oil on canvas

15 7/8 × 19 3/4 in | 40.3 × 50.2 cm

Woman with a Fan, 1941

Oil on canvas

20 × 24 in | 50.8 × 61 cm

#4, 1940

Oil on canvas

20 × 15 3/4 × 40 in | 50.8 × 40 × 101.6 cm

Untitled (Surrealist Composition), 1939

Oil on canvas

18 × 22 in | 45.7 × 55.9 cm

Bird and Flower, circa 1938

Oil on canvas

20 × 26 in | 50.8 × 66 cm

Untitled (Figure with Piano Keys and Rooster) or Circus , 1938 

Oil on canvas

30 1/2 x 24 in. (77.5 x 61 cm)