Beauford's Art - The Clamart Years
Last week's posting featured Beauford's home in Clamart, a suburb located 9 km (~5.6 miles) south of Paris.
In James Baldwin's introduction to Beauford's 1964 exposition at the Gallery Lambert in Paris, Baldwin states that Beauford's paintings "underwent a most striking metamorphosis into freedom" during his years in Clamart. While I do not pretend to have vast knowledge of what Beauford produced during these years, I am taking the liberty of bringing you a few pieces from this period (1956-late 1961/early 1962) that I consider to be extraordinary. Enjoy!
Untitled (Yellow Abstraction)
(c. 1958-1959) Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Aaron Galleries
Untitled (Abstract Composition)
(1961) Oil monotype on heavy wove paper
Photo courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
Untitled
(1957) Oil on canvas
© Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. RMN / Philippe Migeat
Untitled
(c. 1956) Watercolor and gouache on paper
Collection of the Delaney Estate
Nativity Scene
(1961) Oil on canvas
Private collection
In James Baldwin's introduction to Beauford's 1964 exposition at the Gallery Lambert in Paris, Baldwin states that Beauford's paintings "underwent a most striking metamorphosis into freedom" during his years in Clamart. While I do not pretend to have vast knowledge of what Beauford produced during these years, I am taking the liberty of bringing you a few pieces from this period (1956-late 1961/early 1962) that I consider to be extraordinary. Enjoy!
(c. 1958-1959) Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Aaron Galleries
(1961) Oil monotype on heavy wove paper
Photo courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
(1957) Oil on canvas
© Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. RMN / Philippe Migeat
(c. 1956) Watercolor and gouache on paper
Collection of the Delaney Estate
(1961) Oil on canvas
Private collection