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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 6, 2011 | Swann Galleries | New York | African-American Fine Art | 113 | $****** - ****** | Train Whistle Blues |
Works on Paper
34 x 25.4 cm (13.39 x 10 in)
Watercolor, pen, pencil and collage on wove paper
Signed in ink, lower right. Proven
private collection.
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 -1988)
Train Whistle Blues .
Watercolor, pen, pencil and collage on wove paper, circa 1979. 340x254 mm; 13 3/8x10 inches. Signed in ink, lower right.
Provenance: private collection.
With this outstanding watercolor, Romare Bearden reinterprets his early photomontage Train Whistle Blues: II and the collage Train Whistle Blues: I , both from 1964. Both works were included in the 2003-2004 National Gallery retrospective, The Art of Romare Bearden . Bearden incorporated the tradition of the blues in these works by emphasizing the role of call and recall: "His reprise of often-worked themes from his memory-and the often-repeated motifs associated with them-seemed to him like the riffed repetition of a classic blues AAB pattern, in which the second line is a slight alteration of the first." With this repetition, Bearden revisits the blues with this later layered work on paper.
