Lot 14
  • 14

JOHN MARIN | Deer Isle, Maine, Movement No. 14 (The Sea and Pertaining Thereto)

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • John Marin
  • Deer Isle, Maine, Movement No. 14 (The Sea and Pertaining Thereto)
  • signed Marin and dated 27 (lower right); also inscribed in another hand (14)the sea + pertaining thereto/Marin 1927 (on the reverse)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 13 by 16 1/2 inches
  • (33 by 41.9 cm)

Provenance

Sold: Christie's, New York, November 30, 1990, lot 190
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999
[With]Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2011

Exhibited

New York, The Intimate Gallery, Fifty New Paintings by John Marin, November-December 1928
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Independent Visions: Landscapes by Milton Avery, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Walt Kuhn, John Marin, December 1997-January 1998
West Palm Beach, Florida, Eaton Fine Art, Expression and Meaning: The Marine Paintings of John Marin, January-March 1999, no. 13, p. 34, illustrated
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Prewar/Postwar: Modernism to Modern, September-October 2007

Condition

The sheet is hinged to its support at the reverse top edge. There are original artist's pinholes visible at all four corners and two possible pindots of surface accretion at left of center. There appears to be artist's notes on the reverse.
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