Property from the Collection of Carolyn & Roger Horchow, Dallas, Texas

Stuart Davis

Buildings and Figures

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October 6, 06:04 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Property from the Collection of Carolyn & Roger Horchow, Dallas, Texas

Stuart Davis

1892 - 1964

Buildings and Figures


signed Stuart Davis (lower right) and titled Bldg. and figure (in the right outer margin)

gouache and pencil on paper

image: 8 ¾ by 11 ¼ inches (22.2 by 28.6 cm); sheet: 10 ¼ by 14 inches (26 by 33.6 cm)

framed: 20 by 22 ¼ inches (50.8 by 56.5 cm)

Executed in 1931.

The artist
[with]The Downtown Gallery, New York
Edith Gregor Halpert, New York
Estate of the above (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 16, 1873, lot 15)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1981
"Art Dealers: Mme. Don Ton.," Time, vol. 84, no. 2, November 27, 1964p. 84illustrated 
Lowery Stokes Sims, Stuart Davis, American Painter, New York, 1991, p. 33, fig. 19, illustrated
Diane Kelder, Stuart Davis: Art and Theory, 1920-31, New York, 2002, p. 24
Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 1150, p. 577, illustrated
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: "The American Scene": Recent Paintings: New York and Gloucester, March 1932, no. 18
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis Retrospective Exhibition: Gouaches, Watercolors, Drawings, 1912 to 1941, January-February 1946 (as Buildings and Figures)
New York, The Downtown Gallery, 36th Spring Annual: The Figure, May-June 1962, no. 4 (as Building and Figures)
Washington, D.C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, September-November 1962 (as Building and Figures)
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts; San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Loan Exhibition from the Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, August 1963-February 1964, no. 7
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art; New York, Museum of the City of New York; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, Stuart Davis' New York, October 1985-May 1986, no. 29, p. 22n14, p. 57, illustrated