Susannah

signed romare bearden (lower left)

9 by 12 in.

22.9 by 30.5 cm.

The artist

Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York

Ms. Helen Mary Harding, New York (acquired by 1971)

Estate of the above

Christie's New York, 4 November 1987, lot 192 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection

Estate of the above

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts; Berkeley, California, University Art Museum, University of California & Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art, Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual, 1971-72, no. 41

St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art, Adventure with Art: The Helen Mary Harding Collection, 1972, no. 11

Washington, D.C., Zenith Gallery, The Freedom Place Collection at Zenith Gallery, 2007

Washington, D.C., Meridian International Center, Cafritz Galleries, Five American Voices: Selections from the Freedom Place Collection of Stuart Marshall Bloch and Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, 2008, no. 21

Portland, Maine, University of New England, Art Gallery, The Freedom Place Collection, 2009

Washington, D.C., Hemphill Artworks, Romare Bearden, 2017

Washington, D.C., Hemphill Artworks, Romare Bearden, 2020

M. Bunch Washington, The Art of Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual, New York, 1972, no. 69, p. 182, illustrated in color pl. 69 (illustration incorrectly titled Blue Monday)

Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden: His Life and Art, New York, 1990, illustrated p. 203 (incorrectly titled Blue Monday)