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Romare Bearden

Prelude to Troy (No. 2), 1974

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Medium

collagraph in blue on wove Arches paper

Dimensions

plate: 60.9 x 46.8 cm (24 x 18 7/16 in.)

sheet: 76.2 x 56.2 cm (30 x 22 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Yvonne and Richard McCracken and Mary and Jerald Melberg

Accession Number

2000.58.1

Artists / Makers

Romare Bearden (artist) American, 1911 - 1988

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Inscription

lower left in blue ball-point pen: "Prelude to Troy" 1/10; lower right in blue ball-point pen: romare bearden

Provenance

(sale, Jerald Melberg Gallery Inc., Charlotte); gift to NGA, 2000

Associated Names

Melberg Gallery, Jerald

Exhibition History

2004: The Art of Romare Bearden. Natioanl Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of Amerian Art, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2004-2005, no. 140.

Bibliography

2003: The Art of Romare Bearden. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004: 150-151, no. 140.

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