Lot 16
  • 16

Preston Dickinson 1891-1930

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Preston Dickinson
  • Still Life with Pipe and Letters
  • oil on canvas
  • 16 by 12 in.
  • 40.7 by 30.5 cm.
  • Painted circa 1921-22.

Provenance

Charles L. Daniel (Sale:  Parke-Bernet Galleries, Modern American Paintings and Drawings Collected by Charles L. Daniel, Sold by Order of the Present Owners with a Few Additions from Two Private Owners, March 14, 1946, lot 110)
Kraushaar Gallery, New York
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
William C. Janss (acquired from the above, 1982)
(Sale:  Sotheby's, New York, June 6, 1997, lot 135)

Exhibited

New York, Knoedler Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Preston Dickinson, 1943, no. 15
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Art for Collectors, 1974
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, American Modernism:  Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of William and Glenn Janss, 1996, no. 18

Condition

Canvas is not lined (it is primed). SURFACE: in good condition UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: no apparent inpainting
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Catalogue Note

This work is not signed or very indistinctly signed at lower left