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The Conversation

Name: The Conversation | Romare Bearden
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 86009

Romare Bearden

$5,500

American (1911–1988)

Date: 1979
Lithograph on Somerset, signed in pencil lower right
Edition of 175, unnumbered proof
Image Size: 17.75 x 24.75 inches
Size: 21 x 28 in. (53.34 x 71.12 cm)
Frame Size: 26 x 33 inches
Printer: JK Fine Art Editions, Union City, NJ
Publisher: JK Fine Art Editions, Union City, NJ
Reference: GG 8

$5,500

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This print by African American Modern artist Romare Bearden is a limited edition, lithograph on Somerset paper.

The scene comes from Bearden’s Mecklenburg series, a collection of images depicting recollections from his childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, NC. This excellent signed lithograph is an official, unnumbered printer’s edition from a full numbered run of 175 signed and numbered prints. It was printed and published by JK Fine Art Editions, Union City, NJ and is referenced as number 8 in the Gelburd/Rosenberg catalogue raisonne.

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About The Artist: Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden, painter and collage maker, fills his works with the symbols and myths of the American black experience. Romare Howard Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City on March 12, 1988, at the age of 76. His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music,...

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About The Medium: Lithograph

A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.

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about The Conversation

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About The Medium: Lithograph

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