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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Mother and Child
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Collage with gouache and ink on thick paper board, 1982. 305x175 mm; 12x7 inches. Signed in
ink, lower right.
Provenance: the artist; private collection (sold at Swann Galleries on November 12, 1998); the Romare
Bearden Foundation, NewYork; private collection, NewYork.
Romare Bearden has made numerous versions of this important theme in both his collage and
printmaking. An image of this same collage was used to create a large lithograph political poster
Respect Human Dignity-Toby Moffet for Senate
in 1982—the Democrat challenger ran and lost against
U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut.
[40,000/60,000]