Lot 129
  • 129

Theodoros Stamos

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Theodoros Stamos
  • Levant V
  • signed
  • oil on canvas

  • 80 by 70 in. 203.2 by 177.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1960.

Provenance

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York
André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, May 2, 1985, lot 6
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 65th Annual American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, January - February 1962, cat. no. 79, illustrated

Literature

Ralph Pomeroy, Stamos, New York, 1977, fig. no. 149, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling at the edges and corners. There are scattered liquid accretions which fluoresce brightly under ultraviolet light inspection. Otherwise there are no other apparent condition problems with this work. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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