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STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)

Lot 34
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ID 1561406
Lot 34 | STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Egg Beater No. 4
signed 'Stuart Davis' (upper right)—signed again, dated and inscribed with title 'Stuart Davis March 1928' (on the reverse)
gouache on paperboard
14 x 19 ¼ in. (35.6 x 48.9 cm.)
Executed in 1928.




Provenance

The artist.
Downtown Gallery, New York.
Phillip Goodwin, 1946.
Downtown Gallery, New York, 1948.
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, 1989.
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Christie's, New York, 5 December 2002, lot 120, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

R. Smith, "Stuart Davis, Picture-Builder," Art in America, vo. LXIV, no. 5, September-October 1976, p. 85.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Masters of American Modernism, New York, 2000, p. 37, illustrated.
A. Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 554, no. 1120, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis Retrospective Exhibition: Gouaches, Watercolors, Drawings, 1912-1941, January 29-February 16, 1946, no. 15.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden-Baden, Germany, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Bremen, Germany, Bremen Kunsthalle, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January 23-March 23, 1976, no. 62.
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, January 21-March 19, 1978, pp. 16, 80-81, 103, 105, 167, no. 93, illustrated (as Eggbeater No. 1 in Tempera).
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., Stuart Davis (1892-1964): Motifs and Visions, November 2-December 27, 1988, n.p., no. 12, pl. 16, illustrated (as Study for Eggbeater No. 4).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter, November 23, 1991-February 16, 1992, p. 188, no. 75, illustrated.
New York, American Federation of Arts; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art; Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Miami, Florida, Center for the Fine Arts; Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity, December 1992-July 1994, p. 71, no. 29, illustrated.
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