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Paul Sample

The Clown

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July 17, 06:04 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Paul Sample

1896 - 1974


The Clown

signed Paul Starrett Sample (lower right); signed and titled (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

30 by 25 in.

76.2 by 63.5 cm.

Executed in 1933.

Warren M. Chamberlain, Esq. (acquired by 1948)

Audrey Chamberlain Foote, Washington, D.C. (by descent from the above)

New York, Ferargil Galleries, Paul Sample, 1934

Manchester, Vermont, Annual Painting Exhibition, 1935

San Diego, California, The Palace of Fine Arts, Official Art Exhibition of the California Pacific International Exposition, May - November 1935, no. 700

Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art, Paul Sample Retrospective Exhibition, 1948, no. 10, p. 11 (titled Clown Reading)

Miami, University of Miami, The Lowe Art Museum, Paul Sample: Ivy League Regionalist, January - February 1984, p. 24, illustrated

Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, June - August 1988, no. 6, p. 53, illustrated

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Austin Museum of Art, Images From the World Between: The Circus in 20th Century American Art, February 2001 - November 2002, fig. 64, pp. 61, 64 and 175, illustrated (titled Clown Reading)

Julia Gethmann Andrews, "Sample's 'Clown' At Exposition is Outstanding," 1935

Christina F. Larson, "America Seen Through the Work of Paul Sample," Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 2015, figs. 4.19 and 10.5, pp. 134, 284, 402 and 580, illustrated