Brush and ink on cream wove paper, circa 1946. 654x495 mm; 25 3/4x19 1/2 inches. Signed in pencil, lower left.
Proveenance: private collection, New York.
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.
