THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)

Lot 13
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Lot 13 | THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
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$ 500 000 – 700 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
Conversation
signed 'Benton' (lower left)
oil and tempera on gessoed canvas mounted on masonite
17 ¾ x 28 in. (45.1 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted in 1928.




Provenance

Associated American Artists, New York.
Samuel Sosland, Kansas City, Missouri, by 1973.
Estate of the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 6 December 1984, lot 222, sold by the above.
Jake Milgram Wien, New York, acquired from the above.
Private collection, Missouri, acquired from the above, 1991.
Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001.



Literature

M. Baigell, Thomas Hart Benton, New York, 1973, p. 91, pl. 52, illustrated.
V.A. Leeds, An American Palette: Works from the Collection of John and Dolores Beck, exhibition catalogue, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 30 (as The Conversation).
L.G. Mazow, Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2012, pp. 14-15, 32, fig. 5, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Delphic Studios, Recent Paintings by Thomas Hart Benton, March 3-25, 1930, n.p., no. 13.
New York, New York World's Fair, Gallery of American Art Today, American Art Today, 1939, p. 46, no. 29, illustrated.
Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Thomas Hart Benton: A Retrospective Exhibition, April 12-May 18, 1958, n.p., no. 12.
New York, The Katonah Gallery, New England—New Mexico: Artistic Encounters, 1910-1940 March 25-May 7, 1989, p. 10 (as A Conversation).
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Benton's America: Works on Paper and Selected Paintings, January 19-March 2, 1991, pp. 40, 63, no. 84, pl. 28, illustrated.
Palm Beach, Surovek Gallery, Thomas Hart Benton, March-April 2017.



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.
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