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Property from a Private Collection, Palm Beach

Marsden Hartley

White Yucca

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Palm Beach

Marsden Hartley

1877 - 1943


White Yucca

signed Marsden Hartley, dated 1928, and inscribed Aix-en-Provence (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

31 ¾ by 25 ¾ in.

80.6 by 65.4 cm. 

Executed in Aix-en-Provence in 1928-29.


This work is included in The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper with Bates College Museum of Art.

Adelaide Kuntz, Bronxville, New York (acquired as a gift from the artist)

Frances Malek, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1966)

Sotheby's, New York, 25 October 1979, lot 212 (consigned by the above)

Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, Palm Beach (acquired from the above circa 1980)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, bulk 1920-1960, Series 6: Marsden Hartley, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., no. 14.50.37

Exh. Cat., New York, Berry Hill Galleries, The Heart of the Matter: The Still Lifes of Marsden Hartley, 2003, p. 153

Bruce Weber, American Paintings XI, New York, 2003, pp. 126-27, illustrated in color

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Marsden Hartley, 1944-46, p. 92 (titled White Yucca (Memorial to Charles Kuntz))

La Jolla Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, 1966, no. 9, n.p. (titled Yucca)

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Marsden Hartley: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings of the Twenties and Thirties, 1968, no. 14 (titled Memorial to Charles P. Kuntz)

South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Arlie Kuntz, Marsden Hartley and American Modernism, 2014, pp. 92-93, illustrated in color