American Art
American Art
MARVIN DORWART CONE | THE HOUSES THAT JACK BUILT (ONCE UPON A TIME)
Auction Closed
September 17, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
MARVIN DORWART CONE
1891 - 1965
THE HOUSES THAT JACK BUILT (ONCE UPON A TIME)
signed MARVIN CONE (lower right); inscribed "Once Upon a Time" and Painted for Doris and Reg - April 1961 - Arlington, VA. (on a piece of the original stretcher affixed to the backing)
oil on canvas
18 by 40 inches
(45.7 by 101.6 cm)
This painting will be included as no. 1961.004 in Joseph S. Czestochowski's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work to be published by International Arts® at www.catrais.org. We wish to thank him for his assistance cataloguing this lot.
The artist
Doris Cone Weeks and Reginald Weeks (his daughter and son-in-law)
By descent to the present owner, 2006
Joseph S. Czestochowski, Marvin D. Cone: Art as Self-Portrait, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1190, no. 607, illustrated p. 173
The present work is based on both an illustration in Randolph Caldecott popular children's book, The House that Jack Built, originally published in 1878 and a wood toy Marvin Cone built for his daughter Doris in 1928.