.jpg?maxwidth=3840)
Lot 40Property of the Montclair Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
Odysseus Suite: four plates
Fermé30 July 2020
Prix réalisé
USD 8,125
Plus d'informations
Note du spécialiste
Including: Odysseus Leaves; Troy; Circe Into Swine and Siren's Song
Romare Bearden's work refrences a wide variety of sources: the Bible, the writings of French satirist François Rabelais, his childhood memories of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, the people and streets of Harlem, the epic poems of Homer, and more. He revisited many of these themes time and time again. He initially referenced Homer's Iliad in ink drawings and watercolors in the 1940s, and a series of twenty collages based on The Odyssey in 1977.
Bearden’s collages drew strong praise when they were exhibited at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery in New York’s Upper East Side in the spring of 1977, and he went on to make watercolor versions around the same time. About two years later, he translated six of the collage compositions into screenprints, which were published as the Odysseus Suite in 1979.
Romare Bearden's work refrences a wide variety of sources: the Bible, the writings of French satirist François Rabelais, his childhood memories of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, the people and streets of Harlem, the epic poems of Homer, and more. He revisited many of these themes time and time again. He initially referenced Homer's Iliad in ink drawings and watercolors in the 1940s, and a series of twenty collages based on The Odyssey in 1977.
Bearden’s collages drew strong praise when they were exhibited at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery in New York’s Upper East Side in the spring of 1977, and he went on to make watercolor versions around the same time. About two years later, he translated six of the collage compositions into screenprints, which were published as the Odysseus Suite in 1979.