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Property from a Private Collection, Pennsylvania

George Tooker

Jukebox

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection, Pennsylvania

George Tooker

1920 - 2011


Jukebox

signed Tooker (lower right)

tempera on gessoed board

21 by 14 in.

53.3 by 35.6 cm.

Executed in 1953.

Lincoln Kirstein, New York (acquired directly from the artist by 1966)

Marie Maud Byers and Joseph Verner Reed, Greenwich (acquired by 1967)

Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College (acquired as a gift from the above on 15 August 1967)

Marisa Del Re Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired by 1992)

George Wein, New York (acquired from the above)

The George and Joyce Wein Foundation, New York (acquired from the above on 17 May 1986)

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

[with] Menconi + Schoelkopf, New York

Acquired from the above in 2007 by the present owner

Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, George Tooker, August - September 1967, no. 9, n.p., illustrated

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Surreal Visions: The Early Years of Cadmus, French and Tooker, February - May 1990, illustrated in color (in exhibition brochure)

New York, Marisa Del Re Gallery, Tooker's Women, 1946-1992, October - December 1992

New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, Body Beware, May - July 2007, n.p.

New York, National Academy Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Columbus Museum of Art, George Tooker: A Retrospective, October 2008 - September 2009, no. 21, pp. 126-27 and 187, illustrated in color

Thomas H. Garver, George Tooker, New York, 1985, pp. 51-52 and 133, illustrated

Theodore F. Wolff, "Artists of the Enigmatic: Cadmus, French, and Tooker Imbued Ordinary Scenes with Mystery, Foreboding," Christian Science Monitor, 13 April 1990, p. 11, illustrated

Edward Sozanski, "Art: Beautiful Work, Long Neglected, is Given its Due," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 February 2009, illustrated in color