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

Bernard Karfiol

Seated Nude

No reserve

Lot Closed

March 5, 03:56 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Bernard Karfiol

1886 - 1952


Seated Nude

signed B. Karfiol (lower right)

oil on canvas

40 by 30 in.

101.6 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1929.

The Downtown Gallery, New York

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1930 by the present owner

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings by 19 Living Americans, December 1929 - January 1930, no. 41, pp. 37 and 39, illustrated

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture, June - September 1930, no. 52

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Living Artists, November 1931 - January 1932

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, American Painting and Sculpture: 1862-1932, October 1932 - February 1933, no. 60, p. 33, illustrated

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, November 1934 - January 1935, no. 92, p. 30, illustrated

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New Acquisitions: The Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, January - February 1936, no. 65

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Bernard Karfiol, May - June 1939

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, January - March 1940

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, October 1940 - January 1941

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture, June 1945 - January 1946, no. 311

Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, and London, Tate Gallery, American Painting: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, June - August 1946, no. 127, p. 15

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, American Paintings from the Museum Collection, December 1948 - March 1949, no. 368

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection, October 1954 - January 1955

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Bernard Karfiol, May 1956

Ontario, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, American Exhibition, March - April 1961

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 311, p. 48, illustrated

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1948, no. 368

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. 236, illustrated