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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
A Portrait of Max: In Sounds, Rhythms, Colors and Silences
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Oil monotype on wove paper, 1985. 711x1067 mm; 28x42 inches. Signed in pencil, upper right.
Provenance: the estate of Max Roach.
Illustrated: Myron Schwartzman,
Romare Bearden, His Life and Art
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In 1985, Romare Bearden and Myron Schwartzman interviewed Max Roach about the correlation
between art and rhythm. Roach described that,”My approach to rhythms ... is the use of space, of