Lot 83
  • 83

Stuart Davis 1892 - 1964

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Stuart Davis
  • Mural Detail Study No. 1
  • signed Stuart Davis, l.r.
  • gouache on paper
  • sight: 8 1/4 by 12 in.
  • (20.3 by 30.5 cm)
  • Executed in 1954.

Provenance

The Downtown Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Greenwich
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 24, 1989, lot 209B, illustrated in color (unsold)
Acquired by the present owner from the estate of the consignor, 1989

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, April-June 1956, no. 96
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stuart Davis, March-November 1957, no. 41, (as Detail Study No. I for Allée)
New York, The Downtown Gallery, 33rd Annual Christmas Exhibition, December 1958

Literature

Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 1289, p. 680, illustrated in color

Condition

Good condition, unframed: hinged to the mat in two places along top edge, mat burn along left edge underneath mat. Sheet size: 12 by 16 in.
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