LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

36.26 in. (92.10 cm.) (height) by 30.24 in. (76.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Matulka' (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Jan Matulka, 1890-1972, December 18, 1979-February 9, 1981, p. 68, no. 21, fig. 71, illustrated. Paris, France, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts; Geneva, Switzerland, Musée Rath, Ferdinand Léger and the Modern Spirit, 1918-1931: An Avant Garde Alternative to Non Objective Art, March 1982-January 16, 1983, p. 285, no. 78, 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. 134-35, 212, no. 45, illustrated.

Literature:

H. Stromholt, "Riding the Waves of a Dark Sea," The Christian Science Monitor, March 24, 1992, p. 16, illustrated.

Provenance:

The artist. Estate of the above. Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York. Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1979.