Watercolor, pencil, brush and ink on cream wove paper, circa 1947-48. 660x508 mm; 26x20 inches. Signed in ink, upper right.
Provenance: acquired from Bonhams, California, May 5, 2004; private collection, Texas (2004).
This painting comes from Bearden's Iliad series of modernist paintings depicting Homer's account of the Trojan War. He exhibited work from the series at the Niveau Gallery, New York in 1948. Schwartzman p. 152.
