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E. Ambrose Webster

Greenwich Village in Geometry

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November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

E. Ambrose Webster

1869 - 1935


Greenwich Village in Geometry

signed E. Ambrose Webster and dated '29 (lower left)

oil on canvas

45 ¾ by 31 ¾ in.

116.2 by 80.6 cm.

Executed in 1929. 

Estate of the artist (acquired by 1935)
Georgianna Webster (the artist's wife)
Karl Rodgers (acquired from the above in 1942)
Allegra H. Rodgers (acquired from the above)
Delorma Rodgers Morton (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 21 May 2014, lot 60 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Linda Hyman Fine Arts, Primary Structures: The American Modernists' World, 1996
New York, Babcock Galleries, E. Ambrose Webster, 2003
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Arts, E. Ambrose Webster: Pioneer Modernist, 2008-09
Grace Glueck, "Art in Review - E. Ambrose Webster," The New York Times, 2003
Gail R. Scott, E. Ambrose Webster: Chasing the Sun, Manchester, Vermont, 2009, pp. 169, 172, illustrated on the back cover