Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #24
- Artist: Dawoud Bey
- Date: 2017, printed 2020
- Medium: Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper, mounted on aluminium
- Dimensions: image: 1118 × 1388 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the “Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #24” by Dawoud Bey. It was created in 2017 and later printed in 2020 as a gelatin silver photograph. The image is mounted on aluminium, giving it a sleek, almost metallic sheen that catches light as you move. The work is strikingly monochrome, a deep black landscape that invites the viewer to linger. You can almost feel the quiet tension, as if the night is arriving gently yet firmly. The large format—over a meter wide—makes the details feel intimate, pulling you into the scene. The piece reflects Bey’s precise technical skill and his way of capturing quiet moments of African‑American life, though the image itself is intentionally abstract and open to interpretation.
See it in person
Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #24 is in the collection of Tate Modern on Bankside, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
