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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 19, 2008 | Swann Auctions | New York | African-American Fine Art | 48 | $****** - ****** | Untitled (Three Figures) |
Works on Paper
46 x 62 cm (18.11 x 24.41 in)
Watercolor, brush and ink on cream wove paper
Signed in ink, lower right. From the Rebelais series
ex-collection the artist; private New York collection.
Challenge of the Modern, African-American Artists 1925-1945 , The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 23 - March, 30, 2003, with the label on the frame back.
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Untitled (Three Figures) .
Watercolor, brush and ink on cream wove paper, 1946. 460x620mm; 18 1/8x24 1/2 inches. Signed in ink, lower right. From the Rebelais series.
Provenance: ex-collection the artist; private New York collection.
Exhibited: Challenge of the Modern, African-American Artists 1925-1945 , The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 23 - March, 30, 2003, with the label on the frame back.
An example from Bearden's Rabelais series, this watercolor is a masterful composition of line and color. Inspired by François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel 16th Century satire, Bearden gave this watercolor an allusion to the ribaldry of the period. A group of 18 works were shown at the Kootz Gallery from Feburary 24 to March 15, 1947. Myron Schwartzman described two kinds of scenes in the series: "drinking, carousing, and dancing on the one hand; hunting on the other" with titles drawn from Rabelais that suggest the sense of joie de vivre found in the works. Schwartzman p. 149.
