Jun 10, 2014 - Sale 2353

Sale 2353 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Untitled (Black in America).

Color lithograph, circa 1974. 800x540 mm; 31 1/2x21 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 21/50 in pencil, lower margin. Not in Gelburd/Rosenberg.

A maquette for the oil and paper collage Black in America sold at Sotheby's, New York in 2008. Additionally, Bearden used a nearly identical image for the cover of The Harvard Advocate Special Issue: Black Odyssey; A Search for Home, Number 4, 1974, which incorporated the African flag into the image.