Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960
Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960
PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
Franklin Chenault Watkins
Boris Blai
No reserve
Lot Closed
March 5, 03:30 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Franklin Chenault Watkins
1894 - 1972
Boris Blai
signed with the initials F.W. and dated 38 (upper right)
oil on canvas
40 by 35 in.
101.6 by 88.9 cm.
Executed in 1938.
Frank K. M. Rehn, Inc., New York (acquired in 1939)
Acquired from the above in 1939 by the present owner
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 623, p. 79, illustrated
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1948, no. 770, p. 169, illustrated
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1958
Ben Wolf, Franklin C. Watkins: Portrait of a Painter, Philadelphia 1966, no. 22, p. 80, illustrated
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1977, p. 240, illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Time: An Exhibition to Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art, May - September 1939, no. 118, illustrated
San Francisco, de Young Memorial Museum, Seven Centuries of Painting, December 1939 - January 1940
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, October 1940 - January 1941
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection, November 1944 - May 1945
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture, June 1945 - January 1946, no. 623
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection, May - September 1948; September - December 1948; November - December 1951
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, American Paintings from the Museum Collection, December 1948 - March 1949, no. 770
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Franklin C. Watkins, 1950, no. 21, pp. 23 and 46, illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, August - October 1950
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection, October 1954 - 1955
New York, Brooklyn Museum, The Face of America, November 1957 - January 1958
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Portraits from the Museum Collection, May - July 1960
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Franklin C. Watkins Retrospective Exhibition, March - April 1964 (titled Portrait of Boris Blai)
New York, The New School for Social Research, Art Center, Portraits from the American Art World, February - March 1965
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