Guitar Executive
Details
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
Guitar Executive
signed 'Romare Bearden' (upper right); signed '"GUITAR EXECUTIVE"' (on the reverse)
printed paper collage and paper collage on board
9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed in 1979.
Guitar Executive
signed 'Romare Bearden' (upper right); signed '"GUITAR EXECUTIVE"' (on the reverse)
printed paper collage and paper collage on board
9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed in 1979.
Provenance
Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham
Herman Binder, Farmington
Estate of Herman Binder
Steve Banks Fine Art, San Francisco
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005
Herman Binder, Farmington
Estate of Herman Binder
Steve Banks Fine Art, San Francisco
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005
Literature
M. Bloch and J. Melberg, Romare Bearden 1970-1980, exh. cat., Charlotte, Mint Museum, 1980, p. 108, no. 293.
M. Schwartzman, Romare Bearden: His Life and Art, New York, 1990, pp. 25-26 (illustrated).
M. Schwartzman, Romare Bearden: His Life and Art, New York, 1990, pp. 25-26 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Birmingham, Sheldon Ross Gallery, Romare Bearden: Jazz Collages, March - April 1980, n.p., no. 9 (illustrated).
Birmingham, Sheldon Ross Gallery, Romare Bearden: Recent Collages, September - October 1986, n.p. (illustrated).
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987, April 1991 - January 1993, pp. 76 and 124, no. 69 and 115 (illustrated).
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York and Megan Moynihan Fine Art, New York, Romare Bearden & Sheldon Ross: Artist & Dealer, October - November 2004, n.p. (illustrated).
Birmingham, Sheldon Ross Gallery, Romare Bearden: Recent Collages, September - October 1986, n.p. (illustrated).
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987, April 1991 - January 1993, pp. 76 and 124, no. 69 and 115 (illustrated).
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York and Megan Moynihan Fine Art, New York, Romare Bearden & Sheldon Ross: Artist & Dealer, October - November 2004, n.p. (illustrated).
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