Feb 17, 2011 - Sale 2237

Sale 2237 - Lot 145

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

Collagraph printed in blue on heavy cream wove paper, circa 1974. 603x464 mm; 23 3/4x18 3/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 10. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Mohammad Khalil, M.O.K. Studio, New York. Published by Robert Blackburn, The Printmaking Workshop, New York. A very good, dark impression of this extremely scarce print.

Bearden alternately titled this print Before Troy and Prologue to Troy, No. 2, Reverse State. Gelburd/Rosenberg GG#36.