
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
(probably) Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Art Museum, Paintings by Marsden Hartley and Stuart Davis, December 1941 (as Artist's Room)
Bruce Weber, Stuart Davis’ New York, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1985, p. 24n58
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.