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STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)

Lot 20
17.04.2025 10:00UTC -04:00
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$ 2 000 000
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ID 1401064
Lot 20 | STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Study for 'The Paris Bit'
signed upside down 'Stuart Davis' (lower center)—signed again and dated 'Stuart Davis 1957-60' and inscribed with title (on a piece of the original stretcher)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1951 and 1957-60.




Provenance

The artist.
The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Jack Lawrence, New York, 1961.
ACA Galleries, New York.
The Regis Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1984.
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001.



Literature

"American Artist: Photographed by Arnold Newman," Art in America, vol. LIII, no. 3, June 1965, p. 108, illustrated.
L. Kachur, "Stuart Davis and Bob Brown: The Masses to The Paris Bit," Arts Magazine, vol. LVII, no. 2, October 1982, p. 73, fig. 11, illustrated (as The Paris Bit).
K. Wilkin, W.C. Agee, Stuart Davis (1892-1964): Black and White, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, n.p.
W. Wilson, Stuart Davis's Abstract Argot, San Francisco, California, 1993, frontispiece illustration.
A. Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, pp. 446-47, no. 1722, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Spring 1961, May 16-June 9, 1961, no. 1.
Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, American Painting 1962, March 9-April 15, 1962, n.p., no. 21, illustrated.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect: Recent Acquisitions by Members of the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art: 7th Friends Loan Exhibition, May 8-June 16, 1964, p. 10, no. 29.
Paris, France, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Berlin, Germany, Amerika Haus; London, American Embassy, Stuart Davis, 1894-1964, February 15-June 24, 1966, n.p., no. 41.
Jerusalem, Israel, The Israel Museum, 1967.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Stuart Davis: An American in Paris, October 2-December 10, 1987, pp. 10, 15, n.p., illustrated.
Koriyama, Japan, Koriyama City Museum of Art; Shiga, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art; Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Stuart Davis: Retrospective, 1995, July 9-November 26, 1995, p. 117, no. 75, illustrated.
Venice, Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Rome, Italy, Palazzo delle Esposizione; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Stuart Davis, June 7, 1997-September 7, 1998, pp. 190-91, no. 59, illustrated.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, June 10, 2016-March 5, 2017, pp. 138, 240, no. 77, illustrated.
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