ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)

St. Martin Obeah (Sorcier de St. Martin, Manmbo St. Martin Yan)

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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988)
St. Martin Obeah (Sorcier de St. Martin, Manmbo St. Martin Yan)
signed ‘Romare Bearden’ (center right); titled ‘ST. MARTIN Obeah’ (on the reverse)
watercolor on paper
29 7⁄8 x 22 in. (75.6 x 56.1 cm.)
Executed in 1984.
Provenance
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York
ACA Galleries, New York
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008
Literature
S. Price and R. Price, Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension, Philadelphia, 2006, p. 134, no. 108 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery, Romare Bearden: Rituals of the Obeah, November–December 1984.
New York, Schoelkopf Gallery, Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden, July-August 2021 (virtual exhibition).

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