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THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)

Lot 14
17.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 1 500 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 753202
Lot 14 | THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)Gateside Conversationsigned and dated 'Benton '45' (lower right)oil on gessoed masonite20 x 29 in. (50.8 x 73.7 cm.)Painted in 1945. Provenance Private collection, Denver, Colorado.Elizabeth Nelson Gallery, Chicago.John Paxton, Aledo, Texas, by 1960.Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1971. Literature T.H. Benton, "An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography," Kansas Quarterly, vol. I, 1969, p. 118, illustrated. C. Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Austin, Texas, 1979. Exhibited Chicago, Illinois, Associated American Artists Galleries, Benton, 1946, no. 9. Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth Collects, September 6-October 2, 1960, no. 51, illustrated. Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Center, Recent Acquisitions of Local Collectors, February 7-March 3, 1968, no. 5. Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Americana: A Painting Survey of the American Scene from the Collection of the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, January 29-March 14, 1976, no. 6, illustrated. College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University, The American Vision: Paintings from the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, August 23-September 19, 1982, pp. 54-55, illustrated. Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern, September 16-November 14, 1982, no. 62, illustrated. Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; New York, The Lotus Club, The May Family Collection of American Paintings, February 7-May 1, 1988, pp. 14-15, no. 2, illustrated. Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, April 15-September 30, 1992.Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, July-September 2006, on loan.Palm Beach, Florida, Surovek Gallery, Thomas Hart Benton Exhibition, February 1-April 7, 2017. Post Lot Text This work will be included in the forthcoming Thomas Hart Benton 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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