Romare Bearden American, 1911-1988
Guitar Executive, 1979
Signed at upper right: Rom / are / bear / den
Collage and mixed media on board
9 x 6 inches
22.9 x 15.2 cm
22.9 x 15.2 cm
Provenance
The artist; to[Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan]; to
Herman Binder, Farmington, Michigan, 1980;
Estate of Herman Binder; to
[Steve Banks Fine Art, San Francisco]; to
Private collection, Los Angeles, 2004; to
Private collection, New Jersey, until the present
Exhibitions
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987, April 14, 1991-January 4, 1993, no. 115 // Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York | Megan Moynihan Fine Art, New York, Romare Bearden & Sheldon Ross: Artist & Dealer, October 14-November 6, 2004Literature
Jerald L. Melberg and Maurice J. Bloch, Romare Bearden 1970-1980, Charlotte, North Carolina: Mint Museum, 1980, p. 108, no. 293 // Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden, His Life and Art, New York: Abrams, 1990, p. 25, illus. // Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1991, pp. 76, 124, no. 99, illus.Courtesy of Demo Gallery
Copyright The Artist
Roz Akin
