Contemporary Day Auction

Romare Bearden

Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Sitting in at Baron's

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

Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Sitting in at Baron's

signed (upper right)

collage on Masonite

40 by 30 in.

101.6 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 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.

Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1981)

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. 50, pp. 98-99, illustrated in color

Graham Lock and David Murray, The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art, New York 2009, p. 173

New York, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, Profile/Part II, The Thirties, May - June 1981, n.p., illustrated

Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue, November 2014 - January 2016, pl. 146, pp. 223 and 230, illustrated in color

Atlanta, High Museum of Art and Cincinnati Art Museum, “Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series, September 2019 - February 2020, no. 39, n.p.