Apr 06, 2023 - Sale 2632

Sale 2632 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
The Lamp.

Color lithograph with foil stamping on wove paper, 1984. 597x445 mm; 23 1/2x17 1/2 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 100. Signed, titled, inscribed "A/P" and numbered 1/15 in pencil, lower margin.

The Lamp commemorates the 30th anniversary of the landmark court decision Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, which declared segregated schools in the United States to be unconstitutional; the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund used the image on their poster marking the occasion. Gelburd/Rosenberg GG#112.