Lot 79
  • 79

Reginald Marsh 1898-1954

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Description

  • Reginald Marsh
  • Girl in Green on the Bowery and Acrobats at Coney Island: A double-sided painting
  • front: signed R. Marsh and dated '47, l.r.
  • front: oil on panel; back: tempera on panel 
  • 36 by 48 in. (91.4 by 121.9 cm)

Provenance

The artist

Rehn Gallery, New York

Senator William Benton, New York

By descent in the family

Hirschl &  Adler Galleries, New York, by 1985

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1986

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Gallery N, Painting in the United States, 1947, no. 112, illustrated pl. 40

Bridgeport, Connecticut, Sacred Heart University, The Library Gallery, Reginald Marsh: From the Collection of Senator William Benton, 1972, no. 27 (as Under the El)

New York, Hirschl &  Adler Galleries, Lines of Different Character: American Art from 1727-1947, 1983, no. 83, p. 102, illustrated in color 

St. Louis, Missouri, The Greenberg Gallery; New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Reginald Marsh: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1986, no. 9, p. 14, illustrated in color

Literature

Norman Sasowsky, Reginald Marsh: Catalogue of Paintings: 1947 unpublished manuscript, vol. III, Whitney Museum of American Art Library, New York, begun in 1954, no. 47-3