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Materials:
acrylic on cut leather
Size Notes:
19 x 50
Description:
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Markings:
signed Betye Saar and dated 1972 (on the reverse)
Exhibited:
Los Angeles, California State University, Fine Arts Gallery,Betye Saar: Selected Works 1964-1973, September-October 1973, no. 39 (titled Rainbow); London, Tate Modern; Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Los Angeles, The Broad; San Francisco, de Young Museum; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, July 2017-July 2020,p. 122, illustrated(in installation at California State University in 1973), p. 123, illustrated in color; New York, Ortuzar Projects, You've Come a Long Way Baby: The Sapphire Show, June-July 2021
Literature:
Exh Cat., Milan, Fondazione Prada, BetyeSaar: Uneasy Dancer, September 2016-August 2017, n.p., illustrated (in installation at California State University in 1973); CharlotteJansen, 'Soul of a Nation,' Elephant The Art Culture Magazine, June 2017, illustrated in color (online); Chadria LaBouvier, 'The Artists Who Fueled the Black Power Movement,' Another Man Mag, 11 July 2017, illustrated in color (online); Osei Bonsu, 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,' Frieze Magazine, 21 July 2017, illustrated in color (online); Will Heinrich, 'The Week in Arts: Blood Orange, Glenn Close, Black Power Art in Brooklyn,' The New York Times, 27 September 2018, illustrated in color (online); Jasmine Weber, Continuing the Legacy of the Mystical, Political Betye Saar,??Hyperallergic, 24 April 2019, illustrated in color (in installation at the Broad Museum in 2020); Makeda Easter, 'The Broads Soul of a Nation: Art from the rubble of Watts,' Los Angeles Times, 22 March 2019, illustrated in color (in process of installation at The Broadin 2020) (online); Lynell George, 'The Broad's Black Power Art Exhibition Triggers Something Deep,' LAist, 12 July 2019, illustrated in color (online); Andre Wheeler, How the art of black power shook off the white gaze,?? The Guardian, 9 November 2019, illustrated in color (online); Zo Hopkins, 'Youve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show,'The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2021, illustrated in color (online)
Provenance:
Estate of Joseph Austin, Sherman Oaks; Clark's Fine Art Gallery & Auctioneers,9 November 2013, lot 207 (consigned by the above); Acquiredfrom the above sale by the present owner