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Description: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
The Visitor
signed 'Romare Bearden' (lower left)--signed again, dated '1976' and inscribed with title (on a label affixed to the reverse)
mixed media on masonite
18½ x 24½ in. (47 x 62.2 cm.)


Estimated Price: $_________

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Provenance: Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.
Dr. Clarence P. Rogers, 1977.
[With]Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1990.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Doerer, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, by 1991.
Mr. Sheldon Ross, Birmingham, Michigan, 1994.
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York.
Private collection, Pennsylvania, 2005.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.

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Exhibited: Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum, and elsewhere, Romare Bearden: 1970-1980, October 12, 1980-January 4, 1981, no. 31.
New York, The Studio Museum, and elsewhere, Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987, April 14-August 11, 1991, no. 99.
New York, Franklin Riehlman Fine Art and Megan Moynihan Fine Art, Romare Bearden & Sheldon Ross: Artist & Dealer, October 14-November 6, 2004.

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Published: Mint Museum, Romare Bearden, 1970-1980, exhibition catalogue, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1980, pp. 38, 73, 140, nos. 31, 170, illustrated.
The Studio Museum, Memory and Metaphor, The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1991, pp. 71, 94, no. 99, fig. 58, pl. XIV, illustrated, back cover.
Franklin Riehlman and Megan Moynihan Fine Art, Romare Bearden & Sheldon Ross: Artist & Dealer, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2004, n.p., illustrated.