Contemporary Art Day Auction

Contemporary Art Day Auction

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Collection of Sidney & Bernice Clyman

JOHN GRAHAM | QUEEN OF HEARTS (DAME OF ELCHE)

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, 2011fig. 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