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Babette (Burlesque)
signed Stuart Davis and dated 1912 (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 ⅛ by 37 ⅞ in.
76.9 by 97.2 cm.
Executed on 23 February 1912.
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Details
signed Stuart Davis and dated 1912 (lower right)
30 ⅛ by 37 ⅞ in.
76.9 by 97.2 cm.
Provenance
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Exhibition
Saint Paul, Minnesota State Art Society, Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1912, no. 42
New York, Whitney Studio Club, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Members of the Whitney Studio Club, 1918, no. 29, n.p.
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy and London, Hayward Gallery, The Modern Spirit: American Painting, 1908-1935, 1977, no. 6, p. 34
New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Bohemian Night Life: 1910-1935, 1989, no. 6, n.p.
New York, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Stuart Davis, Scapes: An exhibition of landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes made between 1910 and 1923, 1990, no. 8, p. 9; n.p., illustrated in color
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis: American Painter, 1991, no. 5, p. 115, illustrated in color; p. 16
Vienna, Galerie Ulysses and New York, Ulysses Gallery, Stuart Davis, 1992, n.p., illustrated in color Koriyama City Museum of Art; Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Stuart Davis Exhibition: A Jazz Lover, a Life in New York, 1995, no. 3, p. 44, illustrated in color; p. 74
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Stuart Davis, 1997-98, no. 4, p. 80; p. 81, illustrated in color
Roslyn, Nassau Country Museum of Art, At Play: Artists and Entertainment, 2025
Literature
Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis, New York, 1987, no. 45, p. 46
Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, New Haven and London, 2007, no. 1347, p. 17, illustrated in color