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Stuart Davis

Babette (Burlesque)

signed Stuart Davis and dated 1912 (lower right)

oil on canvas

30 ⅛ by 37 ⅞ in.

76.9 by 97.2 cm.

Executed on 23 February 1912.

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Stuart Davis
Babette (Burlesque)

signed Stuart Davis and dated 1912 (lower right)

oil on canvas

30 ⅛ by 37 ⅞ in.

76.9 by 97.2 cm.

Executed on 23 February 1912.

Provenance

Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner

Exhibition

Saint Paul, Minnesota State Art Society, Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1912, no. 42

New York, Whitney Studio Club, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Members of the Whitney Studio Club, 1918, no. 29, n.p.

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy and London, Hayward Gallery, The Modern Spirit: American Painting, 1908-1935, 1977, no. 6, p. 34

New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Bohemian Night Life: 1910-1935, 1989, no. 6, n.p.

New York, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Stuart Davis, Scapes: An exhibition of landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes made between 1910 and 1923, 1990, no. 8, p. 9; n.p., illustrated in color 

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis: American Painter, 1991, no. 5, p. 115, illustrated in color; p. 16

Vienna, Galerie Ulysses and New York, Ulysses Gallery, Stuart Davis, 1992, n.p., illustrated in color Koriyama City Museum of Art; Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Stuart Davis Exhibition: A Jazz Lover, a Life in New York, 1995, no. 3, p. 44, illustrated in color; p. 74 

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Stuart Davis, 1997-98, no. 4, p. 80; p. 81, illustrated in color

Roslyn, Nassau Country Museum of Art, At Play: Artists and Entertainment, 2025

Literature

Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis, New York, 1987, no. 45, p. 46 

Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, New Haven and London, 2007, no. 1347, p. 17, illustrated in color