Lot 61
  • 61

John Marin 1872 - 1953

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • John Marin
  • Sky Forms and Mountain Forms, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
  • signed Marin and dated '16, l.c.
  • watercolor on paper

  • 16 1/2 by 19 1/4 in.
  • (41.9 by 48.9 cm)

Provenance

Alfred Stieglitz, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Marin, Jr.
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1995

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, John Marin-A Retrospective Exhibition, October 1936, no. 27
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pioneers of Modern Art in America, April-May 1946, no. 93
New York, Willard Gallery, May 1966, no. 4
New York, Kennedy Galleries, John Marin: Land & Sea, October-November 1995, no. 7, illustrated in color

Literature

Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, no. 16.42, p. 423, illustrated

Condition

Very good condition. Unframed: small pinhole in upper left corner, sime very minor matburn along edges, remnants of old glue along edges of reverse; not mounted, tape along edges of the reverse to affix to frame.
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