ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)

Lot 283
18.11.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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$ 30 000
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ID 845947
Lot 283 | ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)

St. Martin Obeah (Sorcier de St. Martin, Manmbo St. Martin Yan)

signed ‘Romare Bearden’ (center right); titled ‘ST. MARTIN Obeah’ (on the reverse)

watercolor on paper

29 7/8 x 22 in. (75.6 x 56.1 cm.)

Painted 1984.





Provenance

Cordier & Ekstrom, New York

ACA Galleries, New York

Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008



Literature

S. Price and R. Price, Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension, Philadelphia, 2006, p. 134, no. 108 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery, Romare Bearden: Rituals of the Obeah, November–December, 1984.

New York, Schoelkopf Gallery, Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden, July-August 2021 (virtual exhibition).
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