Artist: Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988)
Medium: watercolor on paper
Signature: signed lower right
Dimensions: 5.5in. h x 3.5in. w
Description:
The portrait of the author contained in the frontispiece of the James Baldwin novel Just Above My Head, New York, Dial Press, 1979.
signed with initials R.B.
With James Baldwin's signature in ball point pen, cut and pasted by Bearden into the front free endpaper
Provenance:
Private collection, acquired directly from the artist
