LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

15.98 in. (40.60 cm.) (height) by 20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'AE Gallatin/Dec. 1943' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, Paintings by A.E. Gallatin, February 3-17, 1945. New York, Rose Fried Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition: A.E. Gallatin, April 8-30, 1952, no. 13. 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. 96-97, 205, no. 26, 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. 102-04, 283, no. 20, illustrated (as Composition [Cubist Abstraction]). New York, New York University, Grey Art Gallery; Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art; Gainesville, Florida, University of Florida, Harn Museum of Art, The Park Avenue Cubists: Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw, January 14-November 30, 2003.

Provenance:

Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts. Christie's, New York, 1 June 1984, lot 289, sold by the above. Acquired by the late owner from the above.