Gray Interior (aka Gray Morning)

Prints and Drawings

1969

Romare Bearden
American, 1911-1988

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Romare Howard Bearden
Title: Gray Interior (aka Gray Morning)
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1969
Medium: Collage of cut and pasted printed papers, with graphite and touches of incising, on paperboard, laid down on wood panel
Inscriptions: Signed lower left, in graphite: “Romare Bearden”
Dimensions: 525 × 679 mm (primary/secondary support)
Credit Line: Regenstein and Margaret Fisher endowment funds
Reference Number: 2020.29
Copyright: © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

M. Bunch Washington, The Art of Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973), pp. 156–57, pl. 62.
Adriano Pedrosa, et. al., Aftro-Atlantic Histories, (New York: Del Monico Books, 2022), p. 1131, 166, pl. 136 (ill).

São Paulo, Brazil, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Histórias Afro-Atlânticas, June 28–Oct. 21, 2018, vol. I, pp. 105, 135, fig. 203, 396.

Sold by Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, to Ralph (1914–1994) and Fanny (née McConnell, 1911–2005) Ellison, New York, July 16, 1970; Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust, New York; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 9, 2012, lot 123. Sold by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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