Photostat print, mounted on masonite, 1964. 700x950 mm; 27 1/2x37 1/2 inches. Signed in ink, lower left. 1/2-inch puncture and pale spotting, lower left.
Provenance: ex-collection the artist; private New York collection.
Exhibited: Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971; Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940 - 1987, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1991; Romare Bearden in Black-and-White, Photomontage Projections, 1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997, traveling exhibition. 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. 42-43.
This important experimental print is the only known surviving impression of this photostat, and has been included in numerous museum exhibitions on Romare Bearden. The location of the collage from which this was printed is not known.
