Preston Dickinson

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Sold

12,500 USD

bidding is closed

Description

Preston Dickinson
Still Life with Candle
signed Dickinson and dated '30 (lower left)
pastel and pencil on paper
25 by 19 inches
(63.5 by 48.3 cm)

Provenance

Daniel Gallery, New York
Elmer Rice, New York
Knoedler Gallery, New York
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 14, 1968, lot 138
Harry Spiro, New York
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
Richard York Gallery, New York
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe
Private collection, New York
Sale: Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, April 25, 2013, lot 45
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Downtown Gallery, Seven Masters of Watercolor, 1931, no. 5
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ninth Exhibition of Watercolors and Pastels, 1932, no. 5
New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Painting and Sculpture: 1862-1932, 1932 - 1933, no. 27
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Theatre Collects American Art (as Still Life with Fruit and Pitcher), 1961, no. 25

Literature

New York Times, March 29, 1931, sec. VIII, p. 12, illustrated
Chicago Post, July 21, 1931, illustrated
London Studio, February, 1933, p. 85, illustrated
Richard Lee Rubenfeld, Preston Dickinson: An American Modernist with a Catalogue of Selected Works, fig. 145, p. 305, illustrated