Feb 19, 2008 - Sale 2136

Sale 2136 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 18,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Untitled.

Photostat print, mounted on masonite, 1964. 520x750 mm; 20 1/2x29 1/2 inches.

Provenance: ex-collection the artist; private New York collection.

Exhibited: Romare Bearden in Black-and-White, Photomontage Projections, 1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997, traveling exhibition, and In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), 2002. With the labels on the frame back.

Illustrated: Gail Gelburd and Thelma Golden, Romare Bearden in Black-and-White, Photomontage Projections, 1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997, pp. 66-67.

This important experimental print is the only known surviving impression of this photostat. The location of the collage from which this was printed is not known.