Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Memories.

Editioned collage, with color photo-lithograph and printed papers mounted on finished plywood, as issued, 1971. 508x394 mm; 20x15 1/2 inches. Signed and numbered 24/75 in ink, lower left. Published by Sherwood Publishers, New York.

From the Ritual Bayou series, an experimental set of editioned collages that 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. The full edition of 75 was not believed to have been completed.