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Pilate

1979

Romare Bearden

Artist, American, 1911 - 1988

Atelier Ettinger, NY

Publisher

Medium

color lithograph on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of Auldlyn Higgins Williams and E.T. Williams, Jr. in memory of Robert Grayson McGuire III and his parents Elinor Hackett McGuire and Robert Grayson McGuire, Jr.
Dimensions

image: 55.88 × 38.1 cm (22 × 15 in.)
sheet: 71.12 × 53.34 cm (28 × 21 in.)
Accession

2015.24.9
Catalogue Raisonné

Gelburd/Rosen 1992, 82

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Auldlyn Higgins Williams and E.T. Williams, Jr., NY; gift to NGA, 2015

Associated Names

Williams, E.T. Jr.

Bibliography

1992

Gelburd, Gail and Alex Rosenberg. A Graphic Odyssey: Romare Bearden as Printmaker. Exh. cat., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992: 82.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 241/300; lower right in graphite: Romare Bearden

Markings

blindstamp lower right

Wikidata ID

Q77008500

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