Sale 2487 - African-American Fine Art, October 4, 2018

163 c RICHARD YARDE (1939 - 2011) Savoy . Watercolor on heavy Arches paper, 1989. 1054x753 mm; 41 1 / 2 x29 5 / 8 inches (sheet). Signed, dated and inscribed “ ©” in pencil, lower right. Provenance: June Kelly Gallery; private collection, New York (1993). Boston artist Richard Yarde is best known for these large-scale and daring watercolors from his Savoy Ballroom series with their quilt-like compositions of dancers and jazz musicians. [6,000/9,000]