Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 26,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Prevalence of Ritual.

Portfolio of 5 color screenprints, 1974. Each 915x760 mm; 36x30 inches, full margins, loose as issued.

One of 100 numbered copies. Numbered 35/100 in ink on the justification page. Each signed, dated, titled and numbered 35/100 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, New York. Published by Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, and Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.

Original printed blue linen-covered portfolio. Marginal staining and spotting. Very good impressions.

This is only the third set to be offered at auction in the past 20 years. Gelburd/Rosenberg 71-75.