American Art

American Art

STUART DAVIS | NEW YORK ATTIC

Auction Closed

November 19, 04:22 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

STUART DAVIS

1892 - 1964

NEW YORK ATTIC


signed Stuart Davis (upper right)

gouache, charcoal and pencil on paper laid down on paperboard

image: 12 by 17 inches (30.5 by 43.2 cm)

sheet: 14 ¼ by 19 ¾ inches (36.2 by 50.2 cm)

Executed in 1928.

The artist

[with]The Downtown Gallery, New York

Herbert Goldstone, 1958 (acquired from the above)

ACA Galleries, New York (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 8, 1971, lot 99)

Private collection (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Bruce Weber, Stuart Davis’ New York, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1985, p. 24n58

(probably) Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Art Museum, Paintings by Marsden Hartley and Stuart Davis, December 1941 (as Artist's Room)

The present work is related to Stuart Davis' New York Attic (1928), which is in the collection of The Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont in Burlington.

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