PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
Alfred Manessier
Figure de Pitié
Lot Closed
March 5, 03:18 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Alfred Manessier
1911 - 1993
Figure de Pitié
signed Manessier and dated 1944-45 (lower left)
oil on canvas
57 ½ by 38 ¼ in.
146.1 by 97.2 cm.
Executed in 1944-45.
This work is registered in the Association Alfred Manessier Abbeville and will be included in the forthcoming Alfred Manessier Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by Christine Manessier.
Galerie René Drouin, Paris (acquired by 1948)
Eugenia Balkin and Charles Zadok, Milwaukee (acquired by 1952)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1963 by the present owner
Arts Club of Chicago, The School of Paris at Mid-Century: A Selection of Modern Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zadok, 1952, no. 33
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Los Angeles County Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art, The New Decade: 22 European Painters and Sculptors, 1955-56, no. III, p. 27
Arts Club of Chicago and Indiana, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Alfred Manessier: Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Prints, 1971-72, no. 1
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art of the Forties, 1991, p. 105, illustrated in color, p. 136
Paris, Grand Palais; Rome, Villa Medici; Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Alfred Manessier Retrospective, 1992-93
New York, Museum of Biblical Art, Minding Traditions? Twentieth-Century Artists and the Judeo-Christian Legacy, 2006-07
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1977, p. 395, illustrated
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