1629601

Romare Bearden Serigraph, Circe into Swine #1629601

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Romare  Bearden Serigraph, Circe into Swine #1629601
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Artist: Romare Bearden

Title: Circe into Swine from the Odysseus Suite

Year: 1979

Medium: Signed and Numbered Serigraph

Edition: AP

Paper size: 18 5/8? x 23 1/2? [Frame: 26" x 32"]




Reference: Figure 47, Page 62 in "A Graphic Odyssey: Romare Bearden as Printmaker"
Edited by Gail Gelburd, Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press



Romare Bearden, painter and collage maker, fills his works with the symbols and myths of the American black experience.



Bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1914. Soon after his birth, his family moved to New York City's Harlem. During the mid-1930s, when Bearden was a student of George Grosz at the Art Students League, he founded the "306 Group" for black artists living in Harlem.



After he served in the army during World War II, Bearden's work appeared in several well-publicized shows. During the 1940s, he combined African symbols, such as masks and "conjur women" with stylized realism. In 1950, he went to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne. In Paris he met James Baldwin, Constantin Brancusi and George Braque, all of whom influenced his work. He returned to New York City in 1954.



After his stay in Paris, Bearden's work became more abstract. He used oil paint almost as if it were watercolor, layering washes of indistinct shape over thickened bars of woven colors. Shapes seem to float on the surface, in part because of their softened, muted tones.

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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1979</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:26</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:32</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Romare Bearden Serigraph, Circe into Swine</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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