Brush and ink on cream wove paper, circa 1947. 500x650 mm; 19 1/2x25 1/2 inches. Signed in ink, upper left.
Provenance: private collection.
Romare Bearden took on the heroic theme of the Trojan War in Homer's Iliad for a series of watercolors painted after 1945. Each of these watercolors started with a fluid brush and ink drawing like this one. Fine p. 18.
