Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Property from the Estate of Daniel W. Dietrich II
Romare Bearden (1911-1988)

Awakening

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Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Awakening
signed 'Romare Bearden' (lower right)
synthetic polymer, ink, graphite, paper and printed paper collage on board
32 1/4 x 45 1/2 in. (81.9 x 115.6 cm.)
Executed in 1969.
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., The National Collection of Fine Arts; Berkeley, University of California Art Museum; Pasadena Art Museum; Atlanta, High Museum of Art and Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual, March 1971-June 1972, p. 16, no. 34.

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Lot Essay

Bearden’s work acknowledges the vitality of the American crafts tradition of quiltmaking, rug-looping, and decoration that was a lively art before the appropriation of its ideas by the Cubists… His collages knowingly embrace every influential art movement of the century. The accomplished cut paper forms evoke Matisse, the unsubtle juxtaposition of screwball images hilariously recalls Richard Hamilton, his autobiographical underpinning echoes the structure of so much contemporary art
(as quoted in R. Fine, et. al., The Art of Romare Bearden, Exh, cat., Washington, D.C., 2003, pp. 107-8).

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