STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)

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Lot 128 | STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)

'Flying Carpet', designed 1942

manufactured by V'Soske, Grand Rapids, Michigan

tufted wool with cut-loop pile of wool yarn on jute canvas

81 1⁄2 x 120 in. (207 x 304.8 cm)





Provenance

Mary and Earle Ludgin, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1981, gifted by the above

Sotheby's New York, 15 December 2012, lot 57 (sold to benefit the museum's acquisition fund)

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

S. B. Sherrill, Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America, New York, 1996, p. 383, pl. 409

S. Day, Art Deco and Modernist Carpets, London, 2002, cat. no. 250



Exhibited

Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Permanent Collection: The Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, January - February 1983, n.p., no. 21 (present lot illustrated)
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