Lot 27
  • 27

John Marin

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • John Marin
  • Grey Rock, Blue Grey Sea and Boat
  • signed Marin and dated 38 (lower right)
  • watercolor over traces of pencil on paper
  • 15 1/2 by 21 inches
  • (39.4 by 53.3 cm)

Provenance

Downtown Gallery, New York
Dr. George Newton
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco, M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum; Seattle Art Museum, Eight American Masters of Watercolor, 1968, no. 56
San Antonio, Texas, McNay Art Museum, Close to Home: San Antonio Collects Works on Paper, 1995

Literature

John Baur, Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951, no. 100, illustrated
Sheldon Reich, John Marin: Catalogue Raisonné, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, vol. II, no. 38.13, p. 691

Condition

Watercolor over traces of pencil on paper. Not examined out of frame. In generally good condition aside from pinholes at corners, a few small dots of foxing, and faint discoloration at extreme edges. Not examined out of frame.
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