
PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
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No reserve
Lot Closed
March 5, 04:03 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Darrel Austin
1907 - 1944
Catamount
signed Darrel Austin (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 by 24 in.
50.8 by 61.0 cm.
Executed in November 1940.
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired by 1941)
Acquired from the above through the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund in 1941 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture, March - May 1941
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Contemporary Painting in the United States, April 1941, no. 2, n.p.
Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes; Santiago, Museum Nacional de Bellas Artes and Quito, Universidad Central del Ecuador, La pintura contemporánea norteamericana, June - December 1941
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1942: 18 Artists From 9 States, 1942, pp. 16 and 123, illustrated
New York, Perls Galleries, Darrel Austin Retrospective: 1928–42, March - May 1943, no. 20
(probably) New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Children’s Holiday Circus of Modern Art, 1945-46 (as Cat)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture, June 1945 - February 1946, no. 14
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, American Paintings from the Museum Collection, December 1948 - March 49, no. 17
Texas, Fort Wayne Art School & Museum, Contemporary Art, September - October 1950, no. 10
New York, ACA Galleries, Darrel Austin, November - December 1970, no. 63
“Museum Collection: Acquisitions Since July 1, 1940,” The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, 1941, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 14.
Albert H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 14, p. 22
P. Bird, "Darrel Austin, Washington, DC," Art in America, 1942, p. 25, illustrated p. 18
“Art Helps Cement Pan-American Ties,” The Art Digest, 1 September 1941, vol. 15, no. 20, illustrated p. 5
La Pintura Contemporanea Norteamericana, New York 1941, p. 20.
The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, London, January 1942, vol. 123, p. 24
M. R., “Darrel Austin's Brief, Brilliant Career Reviewed in Retrospect,” The Art Digest, 3 April 1943, vol. 17, no. 13, p. 8
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1948, no. 17