Oct 09, 2014 - Sale 2359

Sale 2359 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 37,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Blues Singer.

Oil monotype, with watercolor and graphite, on Arches paper, 1975. 603x448 mm; 23 3/4x17 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed in blue ink and ball point pen, lower right.

Provenance: Richard A. Long, Atlanta; thence by descent to his estate.

Exhibited: The Art of Romare Bearden, traveling exhibition, including the National Gallery, Washington, DC, September 9, 2003 - January 4, 2004, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 14, 2004 - January 9, 2005, with the museum labels on the frame back.

Illustrated: Fine, Ruth. The Art of Romare Bearden, p. 102, plate 108.