LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

22 x 32

Description:

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Markings:

signed Stuart Davis (upper left); signed titled and dated Dec. 1930 (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: Recent Painting in Oil and Watercolor,1931, no. 6; Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,127th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture,1932, no. 193; New York, The Downtown Gallery,Main Gallery: Concurrently with Willard Cummings and the 40th Annual Christmas Exhibition,1965; Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Larry Aldrich Museum,Brandeis University:Creative Arts Awards, 1957-1966: Tenth Anniversary,1966, no. 2; New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,Pioneers of American Abstraction,1973, no. 24; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Selections from the Collection of Marion and Gustave Ring,1985-86, no. 11, illustrated; New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries and Trenton, The New Jersey State Museum,Chairman's Choice: A Miscellany of American Paintings,1988, no. 12, illustrated; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art,Stuart Davis: An American Painter,1991-92, no. 86, illustrated; Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art,American Vanguards,1996, illustrated; Gloucester, Massachusetts, Cape Ann Historical Museum; Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum; New York, National Academy of Design,Stuart Davis in Gloucester,1999; Winona, Minnesota, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2014-2022 (on loan)

Literature:

J. Lilienfield,The Artist and the Times: Readings on the Harlem Renaissance and the European Renaissance, New York, 1996, illustrated on the cover; William H. Truettner and Roger B. Stein, Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory, New Haven, 1999,no. 198, p. 176, illustrated; Ani Boyajian & Mark Rutkoski,Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonn,vol. 3, New Haven, 2007, no. 1550, pp. 211-12, illustrated

Provenance:

The artist; The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired in 1931); William Steig, New York (acquiredcirca1942); Fulton Cutting, New York; Edith Halpert, New York; Estate of the above; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 March 1973, lot 44; Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York; Terry De Lapp, Los Angeles; Marion and Gustave Ring, Washington, D.C.; Estate of the above; Sotheby's New York, 3 December 1987, lot 317A; The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York; Gerald Peters Gallery, New York; Private Collection, California (acquired in 2000); Christie's New York, 5 December 2002, lot 207; Private Collection (acquired from the above); Christie's New York, 22 May 2014, lot 13; Acquired from the above by the present owner