THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)

Lot 652
22.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Sold
$ 2 349 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
Buyer Premiumsee on Website%
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 1336436
Lot 652 | THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
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.
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
United Kingdom
Preview
22.11.2024 – 22.11.2024
Phone +44 (0)20 7839 9060
Email
Buyer Premium see on Website
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase

More from Creator

THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
$20 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
$70 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
$1 500 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
$100 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
$15 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
$6 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
$100 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
$1 500 000

Related terms