Swann Galleries - African-American Fine Art, Sale 2409

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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)

Blue Carolina Morning

Color screenprint on wove paper, circa 1979. 349x464 mm; 13

x18

inches, full margins.Artist’s

proof aside from the edition of 45. Signed, titled, and inscribed “1/5 AP’s” in pencil, lower margin.

Printed by the NewYork Institute of Technology’s ScreenprintingWorkshop, with the blind stamp

lower right. Not in Geldburg/Rosenberg.

[4,000/6,000]

82 ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)

Mother and Child

Collage with acrylic, pencil, felt tip pen and ink on thick paper board, 1982. 305x175 mm; 12x7

inches. Signed in ink, lower right.

Provenance: the artist; private collection (sold at auction 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.

[20,000/30,000]