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Lot 2
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Jared French 1905 - 1987

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Jared French
  • Music
  • signed Jared French (lower left); also signed Jared French and titled "Music" on the reverse
  • egg tempera on panel
  • 11 1/2 by 17 inches
  • (29.2 by 43.2 cm)
  • Painted in 1943.

Provenance

Robert Isaacson Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1960

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1943: Realists and Magic Realists, February-March 1943, no. 99
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Cadmus, French and Tooker: The Early Years, March-May 1990
New York, Midtown Payson Galleries; Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College Meade Art Museum, The Rediscovery of Jared French, April-November 1992

Literature

Nancy Grimes, Jared French's Myths, San Francisco, California, 1993, pl. 9, illustrated in color

Condition

Very good condition. Under UV: one small loss center bottom; inpainting along extreme edges to address frame abrasion; ½" hairline scratch in shoulder of figure at the left.
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