Apr 02, 2015 - Sale 2378

Sale 2378 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Before Troy.

Collagraph printed in blue on heavy cream wove paper, circa 1974. 603x464 mm; 23 3/4x18 3/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 10. Signed, titled, and dedicated "For Marge and Leon" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Mohammad Khalil, M.O.K. Studio, New York. Published by Robert Blackburn, The Printmaking Workshop, New York. A very good, dark impression of this very scarce print.

Another impression was exhibited in The Art of Romare Bearden, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, September 14, 2003 - January 4, 2004.

Bearden alternately titled this print Prelude to Troy and Prologue to Troy, No. 2, Reverse State. Gelburd/Rosenberg GG#36.