WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977)

Lot 485
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ID 908406
Lot 485 | WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977)
Estimate value
£ 5 500 – 8 000
WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977)

Tycoon

signed 'GROPPER' (lower right); inscribed 'Tycoon' (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)

Painted in 1954





Provenance

ACA Galleries, New York.

Harding Willinger, New Rochelle.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 27 May 1992, lot 121.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.



Literature

L. Lozowick, William Gropper, Philadelphia, 1983, p. 136 (illustrated; illustrated again on the cover).



Exhibited

Turin, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, William Gropper, October 1964, no. 1 (titled ‘L’uomo arrivato’).

Los Angeles, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, William Gropper: Retrospective, February - March 1968, no. 71, p. 8 (illustrated p. 96).



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