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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
Cattle of the Sun God
signed ‘Romare Bearden’ (lower left edge)
paper, printed paper collage and graphite on board
11 7/8 x 14 1/2 in. (30.2 x 36.8 cm.)
Executed in 1977.
Provenance
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York
Mrs. Lee Ault, New York, 1977
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 8 May 1990, lot 134
Private collection, Chicago
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005
Literature
J. L. Melberg and Milton J. Bloch, eds., Romare Bearden 1970–1980, exh. cat., Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, 1980, no. 191.
Exhibited
New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Romare Bearden Odysseus Collages, April-May 1977, n.p., no. 11 (illustrated).
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Twelve Americans: Masters of Collage, November-December 1977, no. 22.
Santa Monica, M. Hanks Gallery, Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective, January–March 2003, no. 3.
Los Angeles, Alitash Kebede Gallery, Romare Bearden & Hebert Gentry: Tribute to a Friendship, May-July 2004, n. 5.
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Romare Bearden A Black Odyssey, November 2007–January 2008.
Winston-Salem, Reynolda House Museum of American Art; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum; Madison, Chazen Museum of Art; Atlanta, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University; Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Museum of Art; New York, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, Romare Bearden A Black Odyssey, October 2012-March 2015.
New York, Schoelkopf Gallery, Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden July-August 2021 (virtual exhibition).