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Details

Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
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signed 'Romare Bearden' (lower left)
ink, graphite, gouache and paper collage on board mounted on panel
18½ x 27½ in. (47 x 69 cm.)
Executed in 1968.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 1969

Literature

M. B. Washington, The Art of Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual, New York, 1973, pp. 140-141, pl. 54 (illustrated in color).

Sale room notice

Please note the provenance for this lot:
Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 1969

Lot Essay

"Bearden has the aware[ness] that the true artist destroys the accepted world by way of revealing the unseen, and creating that which is new and uniquely his own. [He] has used cubist techniques to his own ingenious effect." (Ralph Ellison)

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