Blues (Archibald Motley)

Blues is a 1929 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Archibald J. Motley Jr., measuring 36 by 42 inches and signed "A.J. Motley, Jr. / Paris". Motley painted it in Paris during his Guggenheim Fellowship year. It shows a crowded nightclub with couples dancing close together and brass instruments weaving through the scene; the setting is usually identified as Le Bal Nègre, a West Indian cabaret in the city's fifteenth arrondissement. It is among Motley's best-known works.

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