LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache on paper

Size Notes:

image; sheet: 38.1 x 50.5 cm

Markings:

signed 'Stuart Davis' (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, The Downtown Gallery, "Artists' Models": Opening Exhibition of Figure Paintings By Leading Contemporary American Artists , October 5-25, 1931, no. 6 (as Artist and Model ). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crillon Galleries, Inc., Stuart Davis , December 5-21, 1931, no. 15. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Thirty-first Annual Water Color Exhibition and the Thirty-second Annual Exhibition of Miniatures , November 5-December 10, 1933, no. 803. Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Thirteenth International Exhibition: Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes , March 29-April 29, 1934, no. 239. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum, The Eighth Biennial Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by American and Foreign Artists , February 1-28, 1935, no. 91. Washington, D.C., Whyte Gallery, Fantasy in American Art , April 1939. Newport, Rhode Island, Art Association of Newport, The Twenty-eighth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture , June 30-July 28, 1939, no. 136. New York, The Downtown Gallery, Contemporary American Genre: 27 Painters and Sculptors , November 7-25, 1939, no. 6. Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, Stuart Davis Exhibition , March 1-April 5, 1946. Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, California, University of California at Los Angeles, The Art Galleries, Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, 1894-1964 , May 28-November 28, 1965, pp. 19, 62, no. 51, illustrated. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., Pioneers of American Abstraction , October 17-November 17, 1973, no. 28, illustrated. Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Stuart Davis , October 22, 1993-January 3, 1994

Literature:

W. Bailey, "Exhibition of Paintings by Stuart Davis Seen in Crillon Galleries," Philadelphia Record , December 13, 1931, p. 8. C.H. Bonte, "In Gallery and Studio: Stuart Davis Holding a One Man Show at the Crillon Galleries," Philadelphia Inquirer , December 13, 1931, Society p. 5. American Artists Group, Stuart Davis , New York, 1945, n.p., illustrated. M. Benedikt, "New York Letter: Stuart Davis, 1894-1964," Art International , vol. 9, no. 8, November 20, 1965, p. 44. B. O'Doherty, American Masters: The Voice and the Myth in Modern Art , New York, 1973, p. 55. P. Hills, Stuart Davis , New York, 1996, p. 96, pl. 79, illustrated. A. Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 586, no. 1161, illustrated. J. Fagg, "'That Abused Word: Genre': The 1930s Genre Painting Revival," The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 , vol. VII, no. 1, 2011, pp. 72, pl. 9, illustrated

Provenance:

The artist. The Downtown Gallery, New York, acquired from the above, 1931. Dr. Harry Blutman, New York, acquired from the above, 1945. Harry Spiro, New York, acquired from the above. [With]Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York. Private collection, acquired from the above. [With]Allan Stone Gallery, New York. Lester and Helen Sobin, acquired from the above. Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1994, lot 113, sold by the above. Acquired by the present owner from the above