Guy Pène du Bois 1884-1958

Martin Diamond Fine Arts, Inc., New York
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1980

Marion, Massachusetts, Marion Art Center, Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Guy Pène du Bois, 1966, no. 2
New York, James Graham and Sons, Guy Pène du Bois, 1884-1957, January 1970, no. 4
Coral Gables, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, In Search of the Present: The American Prophets, February-March 1973, no. 54, pp. 19, 36, illustrated
San Antonio, Texas, McNay Art Institute, Collectors Gallery 8, November-December 1974

This painting is in good condition. Very fine, stable, horizontal cracking is evident in the lower left register. There are three more pronounced areas of cracking in the center of the composition. Under UV: there are two small dashes of inpainting at top center along the edge and a few small spots in the background. There is scattered inpainting along the bottom extreme edge, and two spots in the right shoulder of the male figure.
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