ID 820755
Lot 125 | ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
Obeah Man with Cigar (Le Sorcier avec un cigar, Sorcié Avek Gnou Siga)
signed 'Romare Bearden' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
30 1/8 x 22 1/4 in. (76.5 x 56.5 cm.)
Painted in 1984.
Provenance
Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham
Private collection
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004
Exhibited
Birmingham, Sheldon Ross Gallery, Romare Bearden: Recent Collages, September - October 1986, n.p. (illustrated).
Birmingham, Sheldon Ross Gallery, Romare Bearden: Selected Works, 1964-1987, November - December 1990, no. 23 (illustrated).
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987, April 1991 - January 1993, p. 80, fig. 79 (illustrated).
Artist: | Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988) |
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Art style: | Post War Art |
Artist: | Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988) |
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Art style: | Post War Art |
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