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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2008 | Doyle | New York | Modern & Contemporary and European & American Art | 1285 | $****** - ****** | Morning Cul de Sac |
Works on Paper
20.6 x 26.7 cm (8.13 x 10.5 in)
Watercolor on paper
Signed r./bear/den (ul) and titled on the reverse
Romare Bearden
American, 1911-1988
Morning Cul de Sac, circa 1985
Signed r./bear/den (ul) and titled on the reverse
Watercolor on paper
8 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches
Cul de Sac, referred to in the title of the present work, is a small hamlet on the French side of the Caribbean island of St. Martin, where Romare Bearden and his wife, Nanette, lived for extended periods in the 1970s and 1980s. Nanette was born on the island, which Bearden considered a mystical place, where the mythology that makes life bearable could be found. "New York City [took] its toll and he would travel to St. Martin to be rejuvenated, to refresh his creative spirit. He was drawn to the people of the island who, along with the sun, the water, and the food, were a tonic to him." [Sally Price, Richard Price, Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, p. 49.]
Wherever Bearden went on the island, his painterly eye was active. In an autobiographical piece written five years b
