Feb 06, 2007 - Sale 2102

Sale 2102 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Jazz II.

Color screenprint, 1980. 680x960 mm; 26 3/4x37 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 102/200 in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this large print with bright and strong colors.

Bearden recreates an earlier jazz subject from his 1964 photomontage Jazz: (Chicago) Grand Terrace Ballroom--1930s, in the collection of the Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Gelburd/Rosenberg 66.