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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
All The ThingsYou Are
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Collage, color dyes and watercolor on board, 1987. 914x610 mm; 36x24
inches. Signed in watercolor, lower left.
Provenance: ACA Gallery, NewYork, with the gallery label on the frame
back; private collection (1988).
Illustrated: Myron Shwartzman.
Romare Bearden: His Art and Life
, back
jacket illustration.The artist is shown posing with the collage.
This significant and dynamic collage of a jazz saxophonist was made in
the spring of what became the last full year of Romare Bearden’s life.
Despite failing health, Bearden displays his mastery of the medium - the
collage displays a daring expressiveness with its highly saturated colors
and paper shapes. Myron Schwartzman recounts in his
Romare Bearden:
His Art and Life
how Bearden completed
All The ThingsYou Are
as part of
a last major series of large collages on the theme of jazz while battling
bone cancer. Schwartzman also describes how André Thibault/Teabo
worked increasingly as his assistant at that time. Bearden continued to
work in collage and watercolor until the final months of his life.
Schwartzman pp. 299-300; Fine p. 123.
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