BEARDEN ROMARE Assemblage of 2 drawings and an Autograph Let

Sale 2034 - Lot 79

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BEARDEN, ROMARE. Assemblage of 2 drawings and an Autograph Letter Signed to a publisher. The drawings are sketches made in the publisher's office. One shows 3 men standing on a street, the other is a rough portrait of Carl Holty. The unrelated letter was sent a few years later. The 3 items are handsomely matted and framed. On verso of the frame is a note from the publisher explaining the circumstances. Overall dimension approximately 26x23 inches. New York, mid 70s

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The publisher writes, "Two casual sketches made in my office at Crown Publishers in the mid-1970s, while discussing editorial matters connected to "The Painter's Mind" by Bearden and Carl Holty - one of Holty - along with a letter to me some years later about the "Eugene Story" he once told me (The crippled boy who taught him to draw . . . pornographic drawings.) and that I wanted Romy to write and illustrate. "