View full screen - View 1 of Lot 377. Desert Towers.

George Copeland Ault

Desert Towers

Session begins in

May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

George Copeland Ault

1891 - 1948


Desert Towers

signed G. C. Ault and dated ‘37. (lower left)

oil on canvas

24 ½ by 30 in.

62.2 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1937.

I. David Orr and Miriam Orr, New York (acquired by 1973)

Private Collection, New York (acquired by descent from the above)

Gerald Peters Gallery, New York

Private Collection

Acquired from the above in 2021 by the present owner

New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, PreWar/PostWar: Modernism to Modern, 2007

Stamford, Connecticut, Downing Yudain, Left and Right of Center, 2018, p. 3, illustrated in color

New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe and Other Modernists, 2009

New York, Debra Force Fine Art, American Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, 2019

Louise Ault, Artist in Woodstock: George Ault, The Independent Years, Philadelphia, 1978, p. 12