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Title:Untitled (from the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series)
Artist:Romare Bearden (American, Charlotte, North Carolina 1911–1988 New York)
Date:ca. 1946
Medium:Brush and black and colored inks with graphite on paper
Dimensions:19 5/8 × 25 5/8 in. (49.8 × 65.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Gloria Joyner Lee, 2008
Object Number:2009.168
Inscription: Signed (lower right, in black ink): romare bearden
the artist (possibly sold to Lee); Joshua and Gloria Joyner Lee, New York and Massachusetts (until his d.); Gloria Joyner Lee, New York and Massachusetts (until d. 2008; her bequest to MMA)
New York. Samuel M. Kootz Gallery. "Bearden: Paintings and Watercolors Inspired by Garcia Lorca's 'Lament for a Bullfighter'," March 25–April 13, 1946 [possibly this picture].
Howard Devree. "Works by Europeans, Americans." New York Times (March 31, 1946), p. 54 [possibly this picture].
Howard Devree. "Groups and Singly: Galleries Present Diverse Exhibitions of Painting by Contemporary Americans." New York Times (December 29, 1946), p. 46 [possibly this picture].
"In the Art Galleries." New York Herald Tribune (March 31, 1946), p. D7 [possibly this picture].
"Reviews & Previews: Romare Bearden, Bull-Fight Inspiration." Art News 45 (April 1946), p. 53 [possibly this picture].
Ben Wolf. "Bearden Abstracts Drama of the Bull-Ring." Art Digest 20 (April 1, 1946), p. 13 [possibly this picture].
Marion Summers. "Art Today: A Talented Artist in the Picasso Idiom." Daily Worker (April 3, 1946), p. 13 [possibly this picture].
Romare Bearden. "Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings." Leonardo 2 (January 1969), pp. 11–12, mentions the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Calvin Tomkins. "Profiles: Romare Bearden. Putting Something Over Something Else." New Yorker 53 (November 28, 1977), p. 61, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Avis Berman. "Romare Bearden: 'I Paint out of the Tradition of the Blues'." Art News 79 (December 1980), p. 65, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Lowery S. Sims inRomare Bearden: Origins and Progressions. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1986, pp. 13–14, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Matthew S. Witkovsky. "Experience vs. Theory: Romare Bearden and Abstract Expressionism." Black American Literature Forum 23 (Summer 1989), pp. 264–65, 276, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Myron Schwartzman. Romare Bearden: His Life and Art. New York, 1990, pp. 138, 140, 144, 182, 294, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Sharon F. Patton inMemory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden 1940–1987. Exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, 1991, p. 30, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Alvin Ailey et al. "To Hear Another Language." Callaloo 24 (Spring 2001), pp. 670, 672–73, discuss the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Kobena Mercer. "Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century." Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies. Ed. Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey. Williamstown, Mass., 2002, p. 35, mentions the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Ruth Fine inThe Art of Romare Bearden. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D. C., 2003, pp. 17–19, 92, discusses the "Bullfighter" series.
Abdul Goler inThe Art of Romare Bearden. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003, pp. 196–97.
Sarah Kennel inThe Art of Romare Bearden. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003, pp. 141–42.
Kobena Mercer. "Romare Bearden, 1964: Collage as Kunstwollen." Cosmopolitan Modernisms. Ed. Kobena Mercer. London, 2005, p. 133.
MarÍa Paz Moreno. "Gypsy Moon Over Harlem: The Intertwined Voices of Langston Hughes and Federico García Lorcá." Langston Hughes Review 20 (Fall 2006), p. 19, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Pepe Karmel. "The Negro Artist's Dilemma: Bearden, Picasso, and Pop Art." Romare Bearden, American Modernist. Ed. Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis. Washington, D.C., 2011, pp. 255, 267 n. 13, discusses the "Lament for a Bulllfighter" series.
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado. "Heroic Moments of Modernity: Romare Bearden, Carlos Enríquez, and the Poetic Lament." Romare Bearden, American Modernist. Ed. Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis. Washington, D.C., 2011, pp. 29–32, 35, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Mary Schmidt Campbell. An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden. New York, 2018, pp. 60, 143, 161, 199, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Kobena Mercer. "Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century." The Romare Bearden Reader. Ed. Robert G. O'Meally. Durham, N.C., 2019, p. 223 [reprints Ref. Mercer 2002].
Calvin Tomkins. "Putting Something Over Something Else." The Romare Bearden Reader. Ed. Robert G. O'Meally. Durham, N.C., 2019, p. 40 [reprints Ref. Tomkins 1977].
Robert G. O'Meally. "'Pressing on Life Until It Gave Back Something in Kinship': An Introductory Essay." The Romare Bearden Reader. Ed. Robert G. O'Meally. Durham, N.C., 2019, pp. 4, 10, discusses the "Lament for a Bullfighter" series.
Romare Bearden. "Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings." The Romare Bearden Reader. Ed. Robert G. O'Meally. Durham, N.C., 2019, p. 122 [reprints Ref. Bearden 1969].
Romare Bearden (American, Charlotte, North Carolina 1911–1988 New York)
ca. 1971
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