Collage with mixed media, signed at upper left "Romare Bearden," inscribed on the verso Stonyville: Piano Interlude (sic), framed under glass with linen liner and hardwood frame with gallery plaque.

SS 6 x 8.75 in.; DOA 12 x 15 in.

Jenkintown Fine Arts Gallery Ltd. (T/A Berg Gallery), Jenkintown, PA

From the collection of a gentleman who knew Bearden and had a substantial collection of his work.

Literature:
Exhibition Catalogue, Charlotte, Mint Museum, Romare Bearden: 1970-1980, 1980, cat. no. 334, p. 109

Born in Charlotte, NC, Bearden found his home in New York, but would draw upon his experiences in Mecklenburg County throughout his lifetime.

Bearden's work is included in many important public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. He has had retrospectives at the Mint Museum of Art (1980), the Detroit Institute of the Arts (1986), as well as numerous posthumous retrospectives, including The Studio Museum in Harlem (1991) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2003).

No apparent condition concerns; not examined out of the frame.

$8,000 - 12,000