Romare Bearden
Gospel Morning
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Romare Bearden
1911 - 1988
Gospel Morning
signed
mixed media collage with paper and fabric on Masonite panel
20 by 24¼ in. 50.8 by 62 cm.
framed: 27½ by 31¾ in. 80.6 by 69.9 cm.
Executed in 1987.
This work is in very good condition overall. Please contact contemporarycuratedny@sothebys.com for the professional condition report prepared by Alvarez Conservation Studio. Framed.
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The artist
Romare Bearden Estate, New York
ACA Galleries, New York
Danny Glover, California
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008
Beverly Fasio, ed., Romare Bearden: His Life and Art, New York, 1990, pp. 299, 302
Robert G. O’Meally, ed., The Romare Bearden Reader, Durham, North Carolina, 2019, p. 368
Boston, Massachusetts, Thomas Segal Gallery, Romare Bearden: Jazz, 1987
Charlotte, Northa Carolina, The Mint Museum; Tampa, Florida, Tampa Museum of Art; Newark, New Jersey, The Newark Museum of Art, Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections, September 2011 - August 2012, no. 82, illustrated
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Romare Bearden: Bayou Fever and Related Works, March - April 2014