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JOSEPH STELLA (1877-1946)

Lot 24
21.04.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 931390
Lot 24 | JOSEPH STELLA (1877-1946)
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
JOSEPH STELLA (1877-1946)

Abstraction

signed 'Joseph Stella' (upper right)

pastel and watercolor on paper

11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm.) diameter

Executed circa 1912-18.





Provenance

Edith Gregor Halpert, New York.

Estate of the above.

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 14-15 March 1973, lot 96, sold by the above.

Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006.



Literature

I.B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, p. 206, no. 257.

J.I.H. Baur, Joseph Stella, New York, 1971, pp. 11, 33, no. 34, illustrated.



Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, January 16-February 28, 1960.

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery; Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta Art Association; Dallas, Texas, Museum for Contemporary Arts; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Toronto, Canada, National Gallery of Canada; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Fine Art; Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson Gallery of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, Joseph Stella: Drawings, October 26, 1960-May 21, 1962.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joseph Stella, 1963, p. 49, no. 35.

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Aquamedia—Modern Masters, January 1964.

Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Edith Gregor Halpert Memorial Exhibition, April 7-June 25, 1972, n.p., no. 28.
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