Feb 16, 2012 - Sale 2268

Sale 2268 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Home Boy.

Offset color lithograph, circa 1972. 245x480 mm; 9 3/4x19 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 3/50 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, bright impression.

We have only seen one impression of this print at auction in the past 20 years. This lithograph was produced by Bearden to support the 1976 production of Ed Bullin's Home Boy at the American Place Theater in New York. An unnumbered impression is illustrated in Mary Lee Corlett's From Print to Process: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden. Corlett pl. 40, p. 73; Fine p. 231.