Lot 72
  • 72

John Marin

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • John Marin
  • Street Movement, Lower Manhattan
  • signed Marin and dated '20 (lower right); also titled Street Movement/Lower Manhattan and dated 1920 (on the reverse)
  • watercolor and charcoal on paper
  • 21 3/4 by 26 3/4 inches
  • (55.2 by 67.9 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Gilbert A. and Anne B. Harrison, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1991 (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owner

Literature

Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, no. 20.25, p. 480

Condition

The sheet is hinged to the mat at the top edge. There are tack holes at corners and edges. There is mat burn along the edges beneath the mat.
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