Lot 150
  • 150

Gene Davis

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Gene Davis
  • Homage to Matisse
  • stamp signed on the reverse

  • acrylic on canvas
  • 94 3/4 by 115 3/4 in. 240.7 by 294 cm.
  • Executed in 1960, this work is stamped by the Estate of Gene Davis and numbered R279 on the reverse.

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
Gene Davis Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Enschede, Netherlands, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Abstract USA 1958 - 1968: In the Galleries, September 2010 - February 2011, cat. no. 3, p. 40, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are scattered liquid accretions which fluoresce brightly under ultraviolet light inspection. There is a 1 inch vertical impression in the unprimed canvas located 30 inches from the right edge and 39 inches from the top edge. Additionally there is a 1 3/4 faint fine red line located 18 from the left edge 36 from top edge which appears to have been a paint drip retouched by the artist. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of inpainting. Framed.
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