Lot 184
  • 184

Philip Evergood 1901-1973

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Philip Evergood
  • Akakyevich and the Person of Consequence, from Gogol's "The Overcoat"
  • signed Philip Evergood, l.l.; titled on the reverse
  • gouache on board
  • 22 1/8 by 15 in.
  • 56.2 by 38 cm.
  • painted in 1951

Provenance

(Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 9, 1963, lot 14a, as Death and the Nazi)
The Estate of Morris W. Primoff, Palm Springs (Sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 24, 1986, lot 261, illustrated
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Schlossberg
Private Collection, New Jersey

Exhibited

New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Columbus Circle, Philip Evergood Retrospective, 1969, no. 121
Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, Georgia Collects, 1989, p. 166

Literature

J. L. Rodale, ed. Old Russian Stories, Emmans, Pennsylvania, 1951, p. 109
Lucy Lippard, The Graphic Work of Philip Evergood, no. 66