Lot 39
  • 39

Stuart Davis

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Stuart Davis
  • Harbor Scene
  • signed Stuart Davis and dated 14 (upper left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 26 by 38 inches
  • (66 by 96.5 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
Private Collection, acquired from the above, 1999
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, New York (sold: Christie's, New York, May 20, 2010, lot 167)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Stuart Davis, Provincetown and Gloucester: Paintings and Drawings, 1986, no. 1 (as Fisherman), illustrated on the cover
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Landscape Anthology, 1988, no. 3 (as Fishermen)
Katonah, New York, Katonah Gallery, New England-New Mexico: Artistic Encounters, 1910-1940, 1989 (as Fisherman)
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Stuart Davis, Scapes: An Exhibition of Landscapes, Cityscapes and Seascapes Made between 1910 and 1923, 1990, no. 13, pl. 13, illustrated in the catalogue
Koriyama, Japan, Koriyama City Museum of Art and elsewhere, Stuart Davis: Retrospective, 1995, no. 10, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Stuart Davis (1892-1964): Landscapes, 1998, no. 4, n.p., illustrated in the catalogue
Santa Fe, Gerald Peters Gallery, Visions of Landscape: Stuart Davis' Early Years (1910-1923), 1998, illustrated in exhibition pamphlet
New York, James Graham & Sons, Crossroads: On the Cusp of Modernism in America, 2000, n.p.

Literature

A. Boyajian and M. Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 3, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 27, no. 1360, illustrated

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: in generally good condition; scattered craquelure (stabilized from relining); some compression to surface from relining, although retention of colors, texture and details is good; canvas weave shows through in a few areas where work is more thinly painted UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: a few scattered spots of inpaint (mostly lower left); two thin, vertical, parallel lines of retouch all along right side of canvas--near right edge
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