Lot 68
  • 68

William Zorach

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • William Zorach
  • Maine Houses
  • signed William Zorach and dated 1918 (lower right)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on paper
  • 15 1/2 by 12 1/4 inches
  • (39.3 by 31 cm)
William and Marguerite Zorach spent the summer of 1918 in Stonington, Maine, along with the John Marins and the Bertram Hartmans.  They did not return again until around 1923, after which they began spending summers there regularly, staying in a rented home which they eventually purchased.

Provenance

Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York
Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York
SBC Corporation
Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center, Collector's Show, 2006, no. 154
New York, Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, Inc., Partners in Modernism: The Art of Marguerite and William Zorach, 2007

Literature

American Images, The SBC Collection of Twentieth Century American Art, New York, 1996, fig. 23, p. 60, illustrated

Condition

In good condition; edges are intact; pinholes at the corners
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