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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Brazil
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Collage of various printed color papers, mounted on masonite board, circa 1978. 381x279 mm;
15x11 inches. Signed in ink, lower left.
Provenance: Richard A. Long, Atlanta; thence by descent to his estate.
With—ROMARE BEARDEN (after).
The First New World Festival of the African Diaspora
, offset
color lithograph poster, 1978. 546x394 mm; 21
1
/
2
x15
1
/
2
inches.
In this striking collage, Bearden shows his skillful hand - the cutting and layering of the various
shaped papers that make up the plumed headdress form a tight, almost abstract composition.
Richard Long also wrote an unpublished paper on Pan Africanism in Brazil entitled
The First New
World Festival of the African Diaspora
- referenced in the 1993 study
Pan Africanism in the African
Diaspora:An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements
by RonaldW.Walters.This collage was
then apparently used as the maquette for a poster advertising tours to Brazil issued by an Atlanta
travel agency.
[35,000/50,000]
