Lot 66
  • 66

Stuart Davis 1892-1964

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Stuart Davis
  • Study for 'Egg Beater No. 4'
  • signed Stuart Davis, titled Egg Beater No. 4 and dated Feb. 9, 1928 in margin, u.c.
  • pencil and colored crayon on paper
  • 15 1/4 by 19 1/4 in.
  • (38.7 by 48.9 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York 
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1981

Exhibited

New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Stuart Davis: Works on Paper, January 1979
Houston, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts, Stuart Davis: Drawings and Prints, July-September 1979, no.15
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter, November 1991-June 1992

Literature

Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis, New York, 1987, illustrated p. 107, pl. 110
Lowery Stokes Sims, Stuart Davis: Drawings, Prints and Paintings, New York,1991, no.76, p.188
Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis:Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 236, p.108, illustrated in color

Condition

Good condition; unframed: hinged in two places at top right and left edge, some mat burn, pin hole in lower right and upper right corners, tack holes on upper right and upper left corners.
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