Lot 31
  • 31

John Sloan

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • John Sloan
  • Nude Glancing Back
  • signed John Sloan (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 32 by 26 inches
  • (81.2 by 66 cm)
  • Painted in 1926.

Provenance

Ruth Martin, New York
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, December 6, 1991, lot 174
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Delaware, The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, The Life & Times of John Sloan, 1961, no. 34
Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Oil Paintings by John Sloan, 1961, no. 31
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Atlanta, Georgia Museum of Art; San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum; St. Louis, City Art Museum; Columbus Gallery of Art; Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, John Sloan 1871-1951: His Life and Paintings, 1971-1972, no. 142, p. 176, illustrated
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, The Ruth Martin Collection of Paintings by John Sloan, 1980, no. 13, illustrated

Literature

John Sloan, Gist of Art, New York, 1939, p. 286, illustrated
Rowland Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonne, Part Two, Newark, Delaware, 1992, no. 779, p. 288, illustrated

Condition

Oil on canvas. Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition aside from scattered craquelure (most of it on sitter's body). UNDER UV: A 3 inch area of inpainting on her true left hand and scattered dots of inpainting.
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