Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): Beauford Delaney Paris 1963
James Jones, Paris; [Philippe Briet, Inc., New York, until 1991; sold in 1991 to Speyer as "Portrait (Rodansky)"]; Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, 1991–92; sold to MMA
New York. Studio Museum in Harlem. "Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945–1965," January 18–June 2, 1996, no. 48 (as "Portrait of Rodanski").
Chicago Cultural Center. "Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945–1965," June 29–August 29, 1996, no. 48.
New Orleans Museum of Art. "Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945–1965," September 14–November 10, 1996, no. 48.
Atlanta. High Museum of Art. "Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow," February 9–May 5, 2002, no. 13 (as "Portrait of Rodanski").
New York. Studio Museum in Harlem. "Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow," July 10–September 15, 2002, no. 13.
Washington, D.C. Anacostia Museum and Center for African History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution. "Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow," October 11–December 30, 2002, no. 13.
Cambridge, Mass. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. "Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow," February 8–May 4, 2003, no. 13.
Madeleine Rousseau. "Beauford-Delaney." Le Musée Vivant no. 23–24 (1964), p. 535, ill. front cover (with the artist and students in his studio, photographed by Roland Essen), identifies the sitter as Sergei Radamsky.
Opus International no. 129 (1992), p. 60, ill., calls it "Rodansky".
T. K. Hunter. "Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945–1965 at the Studio Museum of Harlem." Race & Reason 3 (1996–97), p. 72.
Richard J. Powell inBeauford Delaney: The Color Yellow. Exh. cat., High Museum of Art. Atlanta, 2002, pp. 20–21, no. 13, ill. p. 44 (color), states that it is unknown whether Delaney ever met Rodanski, noting that Rodanski was already admitted to a psychiatric hospital by the time Delaney painted this picture and that the artist often painted from memory or imagination.
Catherine Fox. "Yellow Fellow: Beauford Delaney Showed There's Power in One Color." Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 22, 2002), p. Q6.
Patricia Sue Canterbury. Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis, 2004, p. 74 n. 131, identifies sitter as Sergei Radamsky.
Tyler T. Schmidt. "Lessons in Light: Beauford Delaney's and James Baldwin's 'Unnameable Objects'." Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin's Radical Imagination. Ed. Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow. New York, 2020, p. 56.
Stephen C. Wicks inBeauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door. Ed. Stephen C. Wicks. Exh. cat., Knoxville Museum of Art. Knoxville, 2020, pp. 37, 128.
Sophie Jenkins and Tyra A. Seals inThe Portraits of Beauford Delaney. Exh. cat., Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. New York, 2021, pp. 142, 155 n. 50.
Florine Stettheimer (American, Rochester, New York 1871–1944 New York, New York)
1942
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