ANTIQUE FINE ART, ARMS & ARMOR, JULY 13th, 24
Lot 3117:
Very fine abstract watercolor painting attributed to well listed American artist Beauford Delaney ( 1901-1979). Signed and dated. Size: Framed: 25 1/4" x 19 1/2; Unframed: 17 1/2" x 11 1/4".Beauford Delaney was born in 1901, in Knoxville, Tennessee. An apprentice of artist Lloyd Branson, Beauford was encouraged by his mentor to study art in Boston. In 1929, Beauford traveled to New York and established himself as a prominent artist of the Harlem Renaissance. There he gained the attention and admiration of well known writers and artists such as James Baldwin, Georgia O’Keefe, Alfred Stieglitz, and many others. Beauford moved to Paris in 1953, and it was there that his work transitioned from figurative compositions to abstract expressionism with a focus on color and light. In 1975, Beauford Delaney was admitted to a mental hospital in Paris, where he died in 1979, one year after his first major retrospective exhibit held at the Studio Museum in Harlem.Some exhibitions of Beauford Delaney’s work include the Vendome Gallery, Roko Gallery and Artists’ Gallery, New York City, in the 1940s; Gallerie Paul Fachetti, 1960; and Black Master, Studio Museum in Harlem, 1978.Works by Delaney are in the following public collections, among others: Art Institute of Chicago; Beck Cultural Exchange; Greenville County Museum; Minneapolis Institute of the Arts; National Gallery of Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; Baltimore Museum of Arts; Newark Museum of Art and University of Michigan Museum of Art.~ . Detailed condition reports are not included in this catalog. For additional information, including condition reports, please contact us at [email protected]
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