Enduring Voices Catalogue (6-21-23) - Flipbook - Page 23
Romare Bearden (United States, 1911-1988)
Untitled (Husband and Wife), undated
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 20 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.
What I’ve attempted to do is establish a world through
art in which the validity of my Negro experience could
live and make its own logic.
Black art has always existed. It just hasn’t been looked
for in the right places.
As a Negro I do not need to go looking for happenings,
the absurd or the surreal, because I have seen things
that Dali, Beckett, Ionesco, nor any of the others could
have thought possible.
—Romare Bearden
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