Contemporary Day Auction

Romare Bearden

Magic Garden

Session begins in

May 16, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Romare Bearden

1911 - 1988

Magic Garden

signed (upper left)

mixed media on Masonite

40 by 30 in.

101.6 by 76.2 cm.

Executed circa 1980.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Private Collection (acquired by 2001)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

David C. Driskell, The Other Side of Color, San Francisco 2001, pl. 51, pp. 99-101, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue, November 2014 - January 2016, pl. 98, p. 161, illustrated in color