BEAUFORD DELANEY 1901-1979 GOUACHE ON PAPER ABSTRACT. Gouache on paper, Signed "Beauford Delaney 1966", Painting size: 49cm x 34cm, Frame size: 65cm x 49cm. Acquired from a private collection in Paris. Beauford Delaney was an American Harlem Renaissance painter known for his colorful Modernistpositions and distinctive approach to figuration. One of the most important African-American artists of the early 20th century, he often painted New York street scenes, lively scenes in jazz clubs, and portraits of prominent black figures like James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois. Can Fire in the Park (1946) is one of his most iconic images, movingly capturing amon occurrence in Depression-era New York life. In addition to his representational work, Delaney also painted abstractly, noting that “the abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than the rigidity of a form,” he explained. “A form if it breaths some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.” Born on December 30, 1901 in Knoxville, TN as one of 10 children, he worked as sign-post painter as a teenager before going on to study in Boston at the Massachetts Normal School, the South Boston School of Art, and the Copley Society. After school, he moved to Harlem in New York, where he befriended fellow artists like Alfred Stieglitz and Stuart Davis, who introduced him to the work of Modernists like Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and others. He moved to Europe in 1953 but was unable to find the same success he had previoly had in New York, and gradually succumbed to alcoholism and mental health problems before his death on March 26, 1979 in Paris, France. Today, Delaney’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Meum of Modern Art in New York, and the Philadelphia Meum of Art, among others. D and International 150 D. We can arrange door-to-door delivery to most east coast address and provide to check perior to pay. Please read our policy carefully: 1. All sales are final, no return at any reason. 2. We do not have additional images, all images listed here and all bidders see the same. 3. No PayPal and Credit Card accepted. 4. We arrange in-hoe and delivery. . We do not provide in-site pickup and third party per delivery. If you do not like our policy, please simply do not bid with . Thank you.