Thomas Hart Benton
Carthay Circle: Opening Night
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Thomas Hart Benton
1889 - 1975
Carthay Circle: Opening Night
signed Benton and dated '37 (lower right)
gouache, ink and wash on paper
23 ¼ by 17 ¼ in.
59 by 43.8 cm.
Executed in 1937.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by The Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonné Foundation. Committee Members: Dr. Henry Adams, Jessie Benton, Anthony Benton Gude, Andrew Thompson and Michael Owen.
Private Collection, California
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 19 May 1965, lot 90 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 19 May 1965, lot 90 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Erika Doss, "Artists in Hollywood: Thomas Hart Benton and Nathanael West Picture America's Dream Dump," The Space Between, vol. 7, 2011, no. 1, p. 8, illustrated
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