
Property from an Important New York Estate
Bareback Rider
Session begins in
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
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