Two Beauford Delaney portraits are being offered at auction this month.
Portrait of a Bearded Young Man is part of Swann Auction Galleries' LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History auction, which will take place on August 21, 2025.
Portrait of a Bearded Young Man Reading
(1971-72) Oil on linen canvas
64.8 x 54 cm.; 25 1/2x21 1/4 inches.
Signed and dated in pencil, lower edge (twice)
Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
To my knowledge, this is the first time Swann is offering a Beauford Delaney work in a sale whose theme is not African-American artists.
The estimated sale price is $20,000 - $30,000.
For more information about this auction, click HERE.
Black Art Auction is offering Beauford's Portrait of a Woman, c. 1970 at its Timed Summer Auction.
The work being proposed is quite similar to the one pictured below.
(1966) Oil monotype, with hand-painted additions in oil,
on cream wove paper
Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
The Wells International Foundation's 2016 intern, Sojourner Ahébée, wrote a poem inspired by this work.
Les Amis published the poem on August 27, 2016.
The estimated sale price for Portrait of a Woman is $15,000 - $20,000.
For more information about this sale, click HERE.
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