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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Untitled (Three Gladiators)
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Brush and ink on cream wove paper, circa 1947. 508x650 mm; 20x25
1
/
2
inches. Signed in pencil,
lower right.
Provenance: gift from the artist; Marie Rohan, NewYork. Ms. Rohan is the sister of the late Nanette
Rohan, the wife of Romare Bearden.
Romare Bearden took on the heroic theme of the Trojan War in Homer’s
Iliad
for a series of
watercolors painted after 1945. Each of these watercolors started with a fluid brush and ink drawing
like this one. Fine p. 18.
[4,000/6,000]