LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.98 in. (129.50 cm.) (height) by 35.00 in. (88.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials 'J.X.' (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, Peridot-Washburn Gallery, Jean-Xceron, September 14-October 2, 1971. Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Post Mondrian Abstraction in America, March 31-May 13, 1973, illustrated. New York, Washburn Gallery, American Abstract Paintings from the 1930s and 1940s, September 9-October 2, 1976, cover illustration. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927-1944, October 29, 1983-September 2, 1984, pp. 142, 236, no. 144, illustrated. St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Art Museum; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947, November 20, 1987-June 5, 1988, pp. 38, 42, 192-93, 223, no. 74, illustrated. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, March 5-November 12, 2000, pp. 269-71, 301, no. 73, illustrated.

Literature:

J. Burnham, “Mondrian's American Circle,” Arts, vol. 48, no. 1, September 1973, p. 37, illustrated. S.C. Munson, "Modernism, American Style," Commentary, May 1, 2000. D. Ngo, ed., Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection + Residence, San Francisco, California, 2006, n.p.

Provenance:

The artist. Mary Dorros Xceron, New York, wife of the above. [With]Washburn Gallery, New York. Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1977.