Circe Turns a Companion of Odysseus into a Swine
1979
Artist, American, 1911 - 1988
Printer

Artwork overview
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Medium
color screenprint on wove Lana paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 44.45 × 60.01 cm (17 1/2 × 23 5/8 in.)
sheet: 55.88 × 75.57 cm (22 × 29 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2013.142.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Bill Hodges, NY); gift to NGA, 2013
Associated Names
Bibliography
1992
Gelburd, Gail and Alex Rosenberg. A Graphic Odyssey: Romare Bearden as Printmaker. Exh. cat., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992: 47.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: 65/125; lower right in graphite: Romare Bearden; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: Circe turns his / Companions Into / Swine / X BEA-4
Markings
blindstamp: HMK (for printer Mohammad Omer Khalil, New York)
Watermarks
LANA
Wikidata ID
Q77006208