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A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong

Leon Polk Smith

Red Black White

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November 21, 10:28 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

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A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong

Leon Polk Smith

1906 - 1996


Red Black White

signed, titled and dated 1948 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

37 ¾ by 37 ¾ in.

95.9 by 95.9 cm.

Executed in 1948.

Estate of the artist

Washburn Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in February 2005 by the present owner

New York, Galerie Denise René, Leon Polk Smith, December 1973

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum and Musée de Grenoble, Leon Polk Smith, February - July 1989, p. 34, illustrated in color

New York, Washburn Gallery, Leon Polk Smith: Cattlebrands & Columns, March - April 2000, n.p., illustrated in color

Bonn, University of Bonn, Arithmeum, Leon Polk Smith in the Arithmeum, September 2001 - February 2002, p. 49, illustrated in color

Tom Armstrong, A Singular Vision, Architecture, Art, Landscape, New York, 2011, pp. 97, 201-202, 223 and 233, illustrated in color, and p. 200 (text)