Gray Interior (aka Gray Morning)

Provenance

Sold by Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, to Ralph (1914–1994) and Fanny (née McConnell, 1911–2005) Ellison, New York, July 16, 1970; Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust, New York; sold, Christie's, New York, May 9, 2012, lot 123. Sold by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

Gray Interior (aka Gray Morning)

Romare Howard Bearden

1969

Accession Number

253744

Medium

Collage of cut and pasted printed papers, with graphite and touches of incising, on paperboard, laid down on wood panel

Dimensions

Primary/secondary support: 52.5 × 67.9 cm (20 11/16 × 26 3/4 in.)

Classification

drawings (visual works)

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Regenstein and Margaret Fisher endowment funds