Romare Bearden
St. Martin Obeah (Sorcier de St. Martin, Manmbo St. Martin Yan)
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Romare Bearden
1911 - 1988
St. Martin Obeah (Sorcier de St. Martin, Manmbo St. Martin Yan)
signed (center right); titled St. Martin Obeah (on the verso)
watercolor on paper
29 7⁄8 by 22 in.
75.6 by 56.1 cm.
Executed in 1984.
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
ACA Galleries, New York
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above in 2008 by the present owner
New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Romare Bearden: Rituals of the Obeah, November – December 1984, n.p., illustrated in color
New York, Schoelkopf Gallery, Now Modern, May - June 2022 (virtual exhibition), illustrated in color
Sally Price and Richard Price, Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension, Philadelphia, 2006, no. 108, p. 134, illustrated in color
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