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PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM

Alexander Brook

George Biddle Playing the Flute

No reserve

Lot Closed

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