ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988) Prevalence of Ritual.
Set of 5 color screenprints on wove paper, 1974. Four appox. 1016x812 mm; 40x35 inches; one appox. 812x1016 mm; 32x40 inches, full margins. Each hors commerce impressions, aside from the edition of 100. Each signed, dated, inscribed sequentially "P.R. I-V HC" and numbered 25/37 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, New York. Published by Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, and Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Haven, CT, with the blindstamp.
Provenance: ACA Galley, New York, with the labels on the frame backs; private collection, New York.
The individual titles are: In the Garden * Delilah * Salome * Prolouge to Troy * Noah, Third Day.
Illustrated: From Process to Print Graphic Works by Romare Bearden, essay by Mary Lee Corlett, Pomegranante, San Francisco, 2009, pp. 95-99 (different impressions). Gelburd/Rosenberg GG#71-75.
