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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988) Carolina Interior.
Editioned collage, color photo-lithograph mounted on finished plywood, 1971. 381x514 mm; 15x20 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 27/75 in ink, upper left. From Ritual Bayou.
This work and the following lot are scarce examples from Romare Bearden's brief experimentation with editioned collages in the early 1970s. Six collages were editioned, made from photo-lithographs of collages Bearden had shown in the 1971 Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibition, Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual and the 1975 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, exhibition, Mysteries: Women in the Art of Romare Bearden. However, it is not known, and very unlikely that Bearden completed the intended edition of 75--it was an overwhelming project to match and collage the prints. Mary Lee Corlett in From Process to Print Graphic Works by Romare Bearden describes the overly ambitious production commissioned by Sam Shore, owner of Shorewood Atelier, New York. Shore was a major Bearden collector and donated The Block to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978. Corlett p. 13.
