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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 1, 2024 | Christie's | New York | Post-War to Present | 181 | $****** - ****** | Cattle of the Sun God |
Works on Paper
30.2 x 36.8 cm (11.88 x 14.5 in)
paper, printed paper collage and graphite on board
signed ‘Romare Bearden" (lower left edge)
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York
Mrs. Lee Ault, New York, 1977
Her sale; Christie"s, New York, 8 May 1990, lot 134
Private collection, Chicago
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005
New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Romare Bearden, Odysseus Collages , April-May 1977, n.p., no. 11 (illustrated).
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Twelve Americans: Masters of Collage , November-December 1977, n.p., no. 22.
Santa Monica, M. Hanks Gallery, Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective , January-March 2003, n.p., no. 3.
Los Angeles, Alitash Kebede Gallery, Romare Bearden & Hebert Gentry: Tribute to a Friendship , May-July 2004, n.p., no. 5.
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey , November 2007-January 2008.
Winston-Salem, Reynolda House Museum of American Art; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum; Madison, Chazen Museum of Art; Atlanta, Emory University, Michael C. Carlos Museum; Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Museum of Art and New York, Columbia University, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, October 2012-March 2015.
New York, Schoelkopf Gallery, Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden , July-August 2021 (virtual exhibition).
Romare Bearden, 1970-1980 , exh. cat., Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art, 1980, n.p., no. 191.
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
Cattle of the Sun God
signed ‘Romare Bearden" (lower left edge)
paper, printed paper collage and graphite on board
11 7/8 x 14 ½ in. (30.2 x 36.8 cm.)
Executed in 1977.
