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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ROMARE BEARDEN Before the First Whistle.
Color lithograph, 1973. 397x305 mm; 153/4x117/8 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 50. Signed, inscribed "AP" and numbered 10/10 in pencil, lower margin. Ex-collection Harry B. Henderson, Croton-on-Hudson. A superb impression with strong colors of this scarce print.
This color lithograph is a based on the same-titled collage of 1970. We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 20 years; see Swann Galleries "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings," September 14, 2004, lot 69. Gelburd/Rosenberg 33.
