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BEAUFORD DELANEY (1901 - 1979)
Untitled (Abstract Composition)
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Gouache and watercolor on Schollershammer paper, 1956. 457x305 mm; 18x12 inches. Signed in
ink and ball point pen, lower left.
Provenance: Lawrence Calcagno, the artist; thence by descent to a private collection, NewYork.
Exhibited:
An Artistic Friendship: Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno
, a traveling exhibition,
including the Hampton University Art Museum and the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery,
February 27, 2001 - November 17, 2002, with the label on the frame back.
Painters Larry Calcagno and Beauford Delaney met in 1953 in Paris, and they quickly became close
friends. They kept a correspondence after Calcagno returned to the U.S. in early 1954. Calcagno
returned to Europe in 1955, and invited Delaney to accompany him on the first of several trips to
Spain and Italy. Leeming pp. 116-17; 167-68.
[8,000/12,000]
