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ROMARE BEARDEN Storyville Idyll.
ROMARE BEARDEN
Storyville Idyll.
Oil monotype with hand coloring in watercolor, 1984. 778x1060 mm; 29 1/2x41 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, upper left.
As early as the 1970s Bearden began focusing on scenes from Storyville, the infamous, 19th-century New Orleans bordello district. This work, which depicts a brothel interior scene with a prostitute and a piano player is from a series of monotypes in which Bearden perfected a hybrid process of printing in oil and later heightening by hand with watercolor.
Storyville Idyll.
Oil monotype with hand coloring in watercolor, 1984. 778x1060 mm; 29 1/2x41 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, upper left.
As early as the 1970s Bearden began focusing on scenes from Storyville, the infamous, 19th-century New Orleans bordello district. This work, which depicts a brothel interior scene with a prostitute and a piano player is from a series of monotypes in which Bearden perfected a hybrid process of printing in oil and later heightening by hand with watercolor.
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