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Pepper Jelly Lady - Signed
Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden
Price on Request
American (1911–1988)
- Portfolio: The Presidential Portfolio
- Date: 1980
- Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered lower right
- Edition of 113/150
- Size: 26 x 21 in. (66.04 x 53.34 cm)
- Printer: JK Fine Art Editions Co. NYC
- Publisher: Democratic National Committee, Washington, D.C
- Reference: GG#56
about Pepper Jelly Lady - Signed
Pepper Jelly Lady conjures up this African-American artist’s past in the rural South.
Bearden’s layering and collage compositional methods convey the way memories can be vitally specific and vague at the same time. The central figure honors a woman who sold pepper jelly from a basket while the sketchy border (which may include a self-portrait in the lower right corner) combines multiple scenes from Bearden’s past. This print, signed and numbered in pencil, is from the Presidential Portfolio, commissioned by Joan Mondale.
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