The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from a Prestigious American Collection

Stuart Davis

Contranuities

Auction Closed

November 21, 01:38 AM GMT

Estimate

12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious American Collection

Stuart Davis

1892 - 1964


Contranuities

signed (upper center); signed, titled and dated 1963 (on the overlap); signed, titled and dated 1963 (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

67 ¾ by 49 ¾ in.

172.1 by 124.5 cm.

Executed in 1963.

The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1963)

Robert Fraser Gallery, London (acquired from the above in December 1963)

E. J. Power, London (acquired from the above in February 1964)

Waddington Galleries, London

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1976)

Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1976)

Acquired from the above in May 1977 by the present owner

George Sorley Whittet, "Dunn International: The Best Contemporary Paintings Come to the Tate," Studio International, Vol. 167, No. 850, 1964, p. 66, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts (and traveling), Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, 1894-1964, 1965, pp. 47, 49 (text)

David Sylvester, ed., Modern Art: From Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism, New York, 1965, p. 170, illustrated in color

Conrad Hal Waddington, Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations between Painting and the Natural Sciences in this Century, Cambridge, 1970, no. 12, p. 32, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (and traveling), Stuart Davis, American Painter, 1991-92, fig. 97, pp. 84, 86-88, 94, 106 (text) and p. 107, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (and traveling), Stuart Davis, 1997-98, p. 38 (text)

Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 3, New Haven, 2007, no. 1743, p. 469, illustrated in color

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Spring 1963: Exhibition of New Paintings and Sculpture, April - May 1963, no. 3

Fredericton, Canada, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery and London, The Tate Gallery, Dunn International: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting Sponsored by the Sir James Dunn Foundation, 1963, no. 21, n.p., illustrated (detail)

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Berlin, Amerika Haus; and London, American Embassy, Stuart Davis, 1894-1964, 1966, no. 47 (traveled to London only)

New York, Brooklyn Museum and Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, January - May 1978, no. 112, pp. 78-79, illustrated in color

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; and Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, June 2016 - January 2018, no. 82, p. 35 (text) and p. 143, illustrated in color (New York and Washington, D.C.) (traveled to New York and Washington, D.C. only)