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Stuart Davis

The Dance

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October 4, 07:06 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Stuart Davis

1892 - 1964

The Dance


signed Stuart Davis and dated 1912 (lower center)

watercolor and pencil on paper

15 by 11 in.

38.1 by 28 cm.

Executed in 1912.

Estate of the above

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1980 by the present owner

New York, Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Infantry, International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913, no. 814, n.p.

(probably) New York, Sheridan Square Gallery, Watercolors and Drawings by Stuart Davis, 1917 (as The Garbage Contractors Ball)

Utica, New York, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; New York, Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, 1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963, 1963, no. 814, p. 117 & 187, illustrated

Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Shock of Modernism in America: The Eight and Artists of the Armory Show, 1984, no. 113, p. 73

(probably) W.G. Bowdoin, "Modern Work of Stuart Davis at Village Show," New York Evening World, 13 December 1917, n.p. (as The Garbage Contractors Ball)

"A Glorious Affair," Time , vol. 81, no. 14, 5 April 1963, p. 59, illustrated

Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show, New York, 1988, no. 814, p. 260

Lowery Stokes, Stuart Davis, American Painter, New York, 1991, p. 124

Ani Boyajian & Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 987, p. 476, illustrated