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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988) Two Women in a Harlem Courtyard.

ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Two Women in a Harlem Courtyard.

Photostat print, mounted on masonite, 1964. 965x710 mm; 38x28 inches. Signed in ink, upper left.

Provenance: ex-collection the artist; private New York collection.

This large "projection" is a photostat blow up of the 1964 photomontage and collage in the collection of the Bearden Foundation, New York. See Gail Gelburd and Thelma Golden, Romare Bearden in Black-and-White, Photomontage Projections, 1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997, p. 62.

We have found only two other mentions of this projection. A projection on green paper was listed as Prevalence of Ritual: Two Women in a Harlem Courtyard in the New York University Art Alumni Exhibition, October 11-22, 1965. Two Women in a Harlem Courtyard was listed by Bearden in 1969 as one of his projection titles in preparation for a Studio Museum exhibition. The Art of Romare Bearden, National Gallery of Art, p. 258: Conjuring Bearden, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, p. 93; Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden, His Life and Art, pp. 210-211.

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