ID 778976 
Lot 128  | STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000 
'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)
| Artist: | Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964) | 
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| Medium: | Textile | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps | 
| Artist: | Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964) | 
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| Medium: | Textile | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps | 
| Address of auction | 
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom  | |
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