Contemporary Art Day Auction
Contemporary Art Day Auction
Collection of Sidney & Bernice Clyman
Auction Closed
June 30, 09:53 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Collection of Sidney & Bernice Clyman
JOHN GRAHAM
1881 - 1961
QUEEN OF HEARTS (DAME OF ELCHE)
signed and dated XXXXI
oil on canvas
25 by 20 in. 63.5 by 50.8 cm.
framed: 34¾ by 29¾ in. 88.3 by 75.6 cm.
Executed in 1941.
Collection of Max Granick, New York
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 1985
Ellen Landau, Jackson Pollock, New York 1989, p. 126, illustrated
Roberta Smith, "A Charismatic Artist Who Was Known For Talk," New York Times, 2 December 2005, p. E37, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, de Kooning: a Retrospective, 2011, fig. 5, p. 103, illustrated in color
Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art; Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; David and Alfred Smart Gallery of the University of Chicago; Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, John Graham: Artist and Avatar, June 1987 - September 1988, cat. no. 28, p. 106, illustrated in color
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, John Graham Sum Qui Sum, October - December 2005, p. 101, illustrated in color
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Picasso and American Art, September 2006 - September 2007, pl. 96, p. 182, illustrated in color