Sold to Benefit Dickinson College’s Center for the Futures of Native Peoples
Romare Bearden
Early Carolina Morning
Auction Closed
May 15, 11:34 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sold to Benefit Dickinson College’s Center for the Futures of Native Peoples
Romare Bearden
1911 - 1988
Early Carolina Morning
signed (upper right)
collage, watercolor, pen and pencil on paper laid down on board
16 by 23 ⅞ in.
40.6 by 60.6 cm.
Executed in 1979.
This work will be included in a forthcoming installment of the Romare Bearden Catalogue Raisonné Project, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
London Arts, Inc., Detroit (acquired by 1980)
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte
Acquired from the above in January 2007 by the present owner
Charlotte, Mint Museum; Tampa Museum of Art and Newark Museum, Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections, September 2011 - August 2012, pl. 48, p. 59; p. 60, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, October 2015 - April 2016, pp. 138 and 141; p. 140, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Charlotte, Mint Museum; Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art (and traveling), Romare Bearden: 1970-1980, October 1980 - August 1981, no. 313, p. 109
Lowery S. Sims, Romare Bearden, New York 1993, fig. 4, illustrated