Feb 06, 2007 - Sale 2102

Sale 2102 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
RICHARD YARDE (1939 - )
One Man Band

Watercolor on two joined sheets of thick wove paper, 1983. 1080x620 mm; 42 1/2x24 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right.

Provenance: Ex-collection Aaron Payne Fine Art, New York, with the label on the frame back.

Boston artist Richard Yarde is known for his bold, large watercolors whose imagery reflect his memories of his youth. His paintings are found in many museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Yarde is a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.