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GUY PÈNE DU BOIS (1884-1958)

Lot 89
18.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
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ID 1182847
Lot 89 | GUY PÈNE DU BOIS (1884-1958)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
GUY PÈNE DU BOIS (1884-1958)

Conversation Piece

signed and dated ‘Guy Pène du Bois 36’ (lower right)

oil on canvas

40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)

Painted in 1936.





Provenance

The artist.

Estate of the above.

James Graham & Sons, New York.

Acquired by the present owner by 1993.



Literature

F. Watson, American Painting Today, New York, 1939, p. 59, illustrated.



Exhibited

(Possibly) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, October-December 1938.

Bloomington, Illinois, Scottish Rite Temple, Central Illinois Art Exposition, March 19-April 8, 1939, no. 64.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, The Forty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Art, November 8-December 7, 1941, no. 43.

San Francisco, California, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940, pp. 131, 138, no. 1326, illustrated.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 137th Annual Exhibition, January 25-March 1, 1942, no. 14.

Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends, February 28-May 23, 1993, pp. 72, 78, illustrated (as The Conversationalist).

Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Long Island Collections, A Century of Art: 1880-1980, April 20-July 18, 1982, p. 66, no. 84, illustrated (as The Conversationalist).

Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, FDR and the WPA Era: Art Across America, August 15-October 31, 2004, pp. 39, 56, illustrated (as The Conversationalists).

Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Art and Fashion: from Marie Antionette to Jacqueline Kennedy, May 28-August 13, 2006, p. 47, illustrated (as The Conversationalist).
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