PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
Russell Barnett Aitken
Futility of a Well-Ordered Life
No reserve
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March 5, 03:49 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Russell Barnett Aitken
1910 - 2002
The Futility of a Well-Ordered Life
inscribed RUSSELL / BARNETT / AITKEN (along the base); inscribed RUSS AITKEN (beneath the base)
ceramic
height: 18 ½ in. (47.0 cm.)
Executed in 1935.
Private Collection
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1936 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, December 1936 - January 1937, no. 514a, p. 277
Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Trois Siècles d'Art aux États-Unis, May - July 1938, no. 189, p. 48
“Acquisitions,” The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, 1938, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 7
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 1, p. 21.
Exh. Cat., Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art and Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, The Diversions of Keramos: American Clay Sculpture 1925-1950, 1983, fig. 6.2, p. 76, illustrated
Janet Kardon, Craft in the Machine Age: The History of Twentieth Century American Craft, 1920-1945, New York 1995, pp. 103 and 144, illustrated in color