THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
22.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1336436
Lot 652 | THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
Estimate value
1500000USD $ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
Current River, Missouri Ozarks
signed and dated 'Benton '61' (lower right)
oil and tempera on gessoed canvas mounted on panel
22 x 32 in. (55.9 x 81.3 cm.)
Painted in 1961.
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
Milton and Adrienne Porter, Pittsburgh, 1980
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 2002, lot 83
Private collection, Kansas City
John H. Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Selected American Masterworks: John Singleton Copley to Jack Levine, 1770-1979, December 1979-January 1980, n.p., no. 50 (illustrated; titled Arkansas River with Figures).
Palm Beach, Surovek Gallery, Thomas Hart Benton, March-April 2017, pp. 40-1 (illustrated in color).
Further Details
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonné Foundation. Committee Members: Dr. Henry Adams, Jessie Benton, Anthony Benton Gude, Andrew Thompson and Michael Owen.
Artist: | Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Modern art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Modern art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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