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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988) Untitled (Classical Figures).
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Untitled (Classical Figures).
Watercolor, brush and ink on wove paper, circa 1947-8. 470x610 mm; 18 1/2x24 inches. Signed in ink, lower left.
Provenance: ACA Galleries, New York, with the label on the frame back; private Pennsylvania collection.
Romare Bearden took the heroic theme of the Trojan war in Homer''s Iliad for a series of watercolors painted after 1945. Bearden had two other literary themes in his post-war work, from Rabelais'' 16th Century satire Gargantua and Pantagruel and Federico GarcÃa Lorca''s 1935 Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez MejÃa poem. Each watercolor is made around a fluid ink drawing; this work is a very close variant to the watercolor sold at Swann Galleries on March 7, 2006. Ruth Fine, The Art of Romare Bearden, National Gallery of Art, pp. 17-18.
Untitled (Classical Figures).
Watercolor, brush and ink on wove paper, circa 1947-8. 470x610 mm; 18 1/2x24 inches. Signed in ink, lower left.
Provenance: ACA Galleries, New York, with the label on the frame back; private Pennsylvania collection.
Romare Bearden took the heroic theme of the Trojan war in Homer''s Iliad for a series of watercolors painted after 1945. Bearden had two other literary themes in his post-war work, from Rabelais'' 16th Century satire Gargantua and Pantagruel and Federico GarcÃa Lorca''s 1935 Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez MejÃa poem. Each watercolor is made around a fluid ink drawing; this work is a very close variant to the watercolor sold at Swann Galleries on March 7, 2006. Ruth Fine, The Art of Romare Bearden, National Gallery of Art, pp. 17-18.
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