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Property from an Important New York Estate

Walt Kuhn

Bareback Rider

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November 19, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Estate

Walt Kuhn

1877 - 1949


Bareback Rider

signed Walt Kuhn and dated 1926 (lower left); titled (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

40 by 30 ⅛ in.

102 by 76.5 cm.

Executed in 1926.

The Downtown Gallery, New York

Dr. B. D. Saklatwalla, Pittsburgh (acquired from the above by 1934)

The Downtown Gallery, New York

The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont (acquired from the above in 1960)

The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1961)

Edith Gregor Halpert, New York

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 March 1973, lot 86 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Dain Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Forum Gallery, New York

Private Collection, North Carolina (acquired from the above in 1978)

Sotheby’s, New York, 24 May 1989, lot 203

Findlay Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)

John Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach

Neal Andrews, Birmingham, Alabama (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Naples, Florida (acquired from the above)

Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., New York

Barney Ebsworth, Seattle (acquired from the above in 2012)

Christie's, New York, 13 November 2018, lot 40B (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Grand Central Galleries, First Annual Members Prize Exhibition, 1928, no. 85, n.p.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans, 1929-1930, no. 47, p. 45

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute of Technology, An Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of B.D. Saklatwalla, 1934, illustrated

New York, The Downtown Gallery, New Acquisitions, 1959-60 

New York, The Downtown Gallery, New Acquisitions, 1961

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Collector’s Choice, 1961, no. 33, illustrated (dated circa 1928)

New York, The Downtown Gallery, 36th Annual Spring Exhibition, The Figure, 1962 

Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Arts of the Circus, 1962

New York, The Downtown Gallery, “New York City”: Paintings 1913-1963 by American Artists, 1964, no. 12 (titled Bareback Rider, Madison Square Garden)

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Gallery Survey of American Art, 1965 

Tuscon, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Walt Kuhn, 1877-1949: Painter of Vision, 1966, no. 46, p. 44; p. 46, illustrated 

New York, The Downtown Gallery, 41st Anniversary Exhibition, 1966 

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Opening Exhibition, 1968, p. 17

New York, The Downtown Gallery, 43rd Anniversary Exhibition, 1968

New York, The Downtown Gallery, The Performing Arts, 1969

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Edith Gregor Halpert Memorial Exhibition, 1972, no. 11 (dated 1928)

New York, Forum Gallery, Important 20th Century American Paintings, 1974

Jehanne Bietry Salinger, “Has Kuhn Turned on Modernism?” The San Francisco Examiner, 9 September 1928, n.p., illustrated

Mrs. Richard W. Moriarty, “The Art Editor’s Studio Talks,” Club Dial, vol. II, no. 1, October 1928, p. 25

"Grand Central Art Galleries," American Magazine of Art, Winter 1928, illustrated 

Creative Art, vol. 6, no. 1, January 1930, p. sup-17, illustrated (titled Bare-Back Rider)

Wood Gaylor, “Salons of America: Open-to-All No-Jury,” Space, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1930, p. 11, illustrated

Carnegie Magazine, April 1934, pp. 5, 7, illustrated

Penelope Redd, “Saklatwalla Exhibit at Institute,” Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 13 April 1934, p. 16, illustrated

Paul Bird, Fifty Paintings by Walt Kuhn, New York and London, 1940, p. 1, illustrated 

R.R. Bowker, ed., American Art Directory, vol. 37, Washington, D.C., 1945, p. 430 

Carlyle Burrows, “A Taste for Things to Come,” New York Herald Tribune, 17 September 1961, illustrated (titled Circus Rider)

Philip Rhys Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Works, Columbus, Ohio, 1978, no. 164, pp. 102, 104, 117 and 249 

Philip R. Adams, “Walt Kuhn’s Salute,” Arts in Virginia, vol. 25, nos. 2-3, 1985, p. 6