Prelude to Troy (No. 2)
1974
Artist, American, 1911 - 1988
Artwork overview
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Medium
collagraph in blue on wove Arches paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Yvonne and Richard McCracken and Mary and Jerald Melberg
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Dimensions
plate: 60.9 x 46.8 cm (24 x 18 7/16 in.)
sheet: 76.2 x 56.2 cm (30 x 22 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2000.58.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Jerald Melberg Gallery Inc., Charlotte); gift to NGA, 2000
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2004
The Art of Romare Bearden. Natioanl Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of Amerian Art, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2004-2005, no. 140.
Bibliography
2003
The Art of Romare Bearden. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004: 150-151, no. 140.
Inscriptions
lower left in blue ball-point pen: "Prelude to Troy" 1/10; lower right in blue ball-point pen: romare bearden
Watermarks
ARCHES / FRANCE
Wikidata ID
Q75430908