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Beauford Delaney (1901-1979)
Lot 3

Beauford Delaney (1901-1979)

Abstraction No. 4

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Beauford Delaney (1901-1979)
Abstraction No. 4
signed 'Beauford Delaney' (upper right)
oil on canvas
51 x 38 1/8 in. (129.5 x 96.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1965.

Joseph Delaney, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Private collection, Washington, D.C., circa 1987
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form, if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, is also the enigma that is the abstract."
– Beauford Delaney