STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
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ID 1401027
Lot 42 | STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Estimate value
50000USD $ 50 000 – 70 000
Underpass #2
signed 'Stuart Davis' (lower center)—signed again (lower right)—inscribed 'Title-Underpass' (in the margin at lower right)
gouache and pencil on paper
image, 9 ¾ x 12 ½ in. (24.8 x 31.8 cm.);
sheet, 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm.)
Executed in 1955.
Provenance
The artist.
The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Edith Dorne, New York, acquired from the above, 1955.
Estate of the above.
Christie's, New York, 26 May 1988, lot 327, sold by the above.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, New York.
Christie's, New York, 25 April 2002, lot 42, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
A. Boyajian, M. Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, pp. 687-88, no. 1297, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Spring 1955: New Paintings and Sculpture, April 26-May 21, 1955, n.p., no. 2 (as Underpass).
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Stuart Davis, March 30-November 17, 1957, p. 51, no. 50 (as Underpass #1).
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., Stuart Davis, November 13-December 21, 1991, no. 21 (as Underpass No. 1).
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Streamlined: The Precisionist Impulse in American Art, November 22, 1995-January 6, 1996, p. 18, no. 22, illustrated (as Underpass No. 1).
New York, Linda Hyman Fine Arts, Primary Structures: The American Modernists' World, October 7-December 7, 1996 (as Underpass #1).
New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Forms and Rhythms: Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Fernand Leger, October 16-December 23, 1997 (as Underpass #1).
Artist: | Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964) |
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Applied technique: | Gouache |
Art style: | Abstract art, Modern art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
Artist: | Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964) |
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Applied technique: | Gouache |
Art style: | Abstract art, Modern art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
Address of auction |
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