LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (height) by 30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Lucioni/27' (l.l.)

Exhibited:

New York, Ferargil Gallery; New York, Anderson Galleries, Tiffany Foundation 9th Annual Exhibition, 1927, no. 5. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Lines of a Different Character: American Art 1927-1947, November 13, 1982-January 8, 1983, no. 73. 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. 12, 126-27, 211, no. 41, illustrated (as Still Life with Peaches (Red Checkered Tablecloth)). 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. 168-70, 290, no. 41, illustrated (as Still Life with Peaches (Red Checkered Tablecloth)). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life, October 27, 2015-January 10, 2016, pp. 230-31, no. 104, illustrated (as Still Life with Peaches (Red Checkered Tablecloth)).

Literature:

H. McBride, "Attractions in Local Galleries," New York Sun, November 10, 1928, pp. B13, B16, illustrated. World, November 1928. Art in America, vol. 70, no. 42, April 1982, cover illustration. B. Gallati, “Lines of a Different Character: American Art 1927-1947,” Arts, vol. 57, no. 8, April 1983, pp. 40-41, illustrated. Antiques, vol. 124, December 1983, p. 1132, illustrated. J. Baker, Henry Lee McFee and Formalist Realism in American Still Life, 1923-1936, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, 1987, pp. 75-76, illustrated. S.P. Embury, The Art and Life of Luigi Lucioni: A Contribution Towards A Catalogue Raisonné, Holdrege, Nebraska, 2006, pp. 94, 273, no. 27.12, illustrated. D. Ngo, ed., Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection + Residence, San Francisco, California, 2006, n.p., illustrated.

Provenance:

The artist. [With]Feragil Gallery, New York. Leo Bing, Los Angeles, California, acquired from the above, 1927. Anna Bing Arnold, Los Angeles, California, acquired from the above. The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery of the University of California, Los Angeles, California, gift from the above, circa 1958. Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Los Angeles, California, Selected Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of the University of California, Los Angeles, 6 October 1981, lot 415, sold by the above. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above. Bogart Gallery, New York, acquired from the above, 1983. D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1983. Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1983.