Romare Bearden
Cattle of the Sun God
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15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Romare Bearden
1911 - 1988
Cattle of the Sun God
signed (lower left)
collage and pencil on paper laid down on board
board: 12 by 14 ½ in. 30.5 by 36.8 cm.
overall: 12 ¾ by 15 ⅜ in. 32.4 by 39.1 cm.
Executed in 1977.
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.
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York
Isabel Ault, New York (acquired from the above in 1977)
Christie’s, New York, 8 May 1990, lot 134 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired at the above sale)
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner
New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Romare Bearden: Odysseus Collages, April - May 1977, no. 11, illustrated
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Twelve Americans: Masters of Collage, November - December 1977, no. 22, illustrated
Charlotte, Mint Museum; Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art (and traveling), Romare Bearden: 1970-1980, October 1980 - August 1981, no. 191, p. 105
Santa Monica, M. Hanks Gallery, Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective, January – March 2003, no. 3
Los Angeles, Alitash Kebede Gallery, Tribute to a Friendship: Romare Bearden and Herbert Gentry, May - July 2004, no. 5
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, November 2007 – January 2008, pp. 70 and 72; p. 71, illustrated
Winston-Salem, Reynolda House Museum of American Art; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum (and traveling), Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, October 2012 - March 2015, pp. 70 and 72; p. 71, illustrated
New York, Schoelkopf Gallery, Now Modern, May - June 2022 (virtual exhibition)
Robert G. O’Meally, ed., The Romare Bearden Reader, Durham and London, 2019, p. 329
“Spiral Group: Norman Lewis & Romare Bearden”, Now Modern, vol. 1, Spring/Summer 2022, p. 95, illustrated in color
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