1473829

Romare Bearden Signed Etching, Out Chorus #1473829

Currency:USD Category:Home & Garden / Inside the Home Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:0.00 USD
Romare Bearden Signed Etching, Out Chorus #1473829
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td><em>
</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%">
Artist: Romare Bearden

Title: Out Chorus

Year: 1979-80

Medium: Photoetching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil

Edition: 93/200

Size: 12 x 16 inches on 22 x 30 in. sheet



Reference: #97B, Figure 1 on Page 6 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 ...
<a href="http://www.goantiques.com/liveauction/complete_description.jsp?id=2106363" target=_new><b>View Complete Description</b></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Reference
#: Bearden_Out_Chorus97b</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1979</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:22</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Romare Bearden Signed Etching, Out Chorus</td></tr>



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