
PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
George Biddle Playing the Flute
No reserve
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March 5, 03:46 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Alexander Brook
1898 - 1980
George Biddle Playing the Flute
signed A Brook and inscribed (lower left)
oil on canvas
40 ⅜ by 30 ¼ in.
102.6 by 76.8 cm.
Executed in 1929.
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York (acquired from the above in 1930)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1935 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; Arts Club of Chicago; and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Twentieth Century Portraits, December 1942 - January 1943, pp. 96 and 134, illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, American Paintings from the Museum Collection, December 1948 - March 1949, no. 92
South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, The Eye Listens; Music in the visual arts, October - November 1950
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection, October 1954 - January 1955
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Portraits from the Museum Collections, May - July 1960
Chicago Arts Club, Sixty Years on the Stage of the Chicago Arts Club, November 1975 - January 1976
Utica, New York, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute and Buffalo, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Art Triangle: Artist, Dealer, Collector,
March - June 1989
Alexander Brook, Alexander Brook, New York 1945, n.p., illustrated
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 62, p. 28
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1948, no. 92
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1958
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art 1929–1967, New York 1977, p. 240
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