LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.02 in. (73.70 cm.) (height) by 35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Stuart Davis, l.r.

Exhibited:

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Hotels and Cafés: Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Stuart Davis, January-February 1930, no. 4, illustrated New York, The Downtown Gallery, [$100 Show], May-June 1930 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The 126th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, January-March 1931, no. 144 New York, Grand Central Palace, Unemployment Fund Exhibit, March 1931 New York, Anderson Galleries, American Art Association, Exhibition of Important Paintings: Old and Modern Masters in the New York Art Market from the Collections of Leading New York Dealers, March-April 1931, no. 25 New York, The Downtown Gallery, In the 1920's Exhibition of Oils, Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings by Eighteen American Contemporaries, March 1937, no. 2 (as Café des Vosges) New York, Julian Levi Gallery, Group Exhibition, November-December 1940, pp. 114-115 (as Place des Vosges) Chicago, Illinois, The Arts Club of Chicago, 3 Contemporary Americans: Karl Zerbe, Stuart Davis, Ralston Crawford, February 1945, no. 6 (as Café des Vosges) Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Art, Exhibition of Paintings by Louis Bouché, Stuart Davis, Joe Jones, Doris Rosenthal, Walter Stuempfig, Max Weber, April 1945 (as Café des Vosges) New York, Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis, October 1945-February 1946, p. 21, illustrated Springfield, Missouri, Springfield Art Museum, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings and Prints: The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, May-June 1949 Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Judge the Jury, February-March 1951 Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stuart Davis, March-November 1957, no. 4, illustrated p. 17 Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah, Nine American Painters: The Fourth Annual Invitational Exhibition of the University of Utah Department of Art, March 1958, illustrated Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, A Loan Exhibition from the Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, January-February 1960, no. 7 Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, September-November 1962 Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts; San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Loan Exhibition from the Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, August 1963-February 1964, no. 6 Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, California, The Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles, Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, 1894-1964, May-November 1965, no. 43 Paris, France, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Berlin, Germany, Amerika Haus; London, American Embassy, Stuart Davis, 1894-1964, February-June 1966, no. 13 (no. 14 in Paris) Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern: An Exhibition of Paintings from Private Collections in Dallas, September-November 1982, no. 54, p. 132, illustrated p. 133 and in color p. 22 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter, November 1991-June 1992, no. 83, p. 196, illustrated in color Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, Celebrating America: Masterworks from Texas Collections, September-November 2002, no. 34, p. 92, illustrated.

Literature:

Elisabeth Luther Cary, "The Painting on the Wall Moves toward Modernism: Collaborative Works," New York Times, June 15, 1930, section 8, p. 9 Henry McBride, "The Palette Knife," Creative Art 8, no. 4, April 1931, illustrated p. 241 (as Café) Stuart Davis, Stuart Davis, New York, 1945, illustrated Holger Cahill, "Stuart Davis in Retrospect, 1945-1910," Artnews 44, no. 13, October 15-31, 1945, p. 32 Elaine de Kooning, "Stuart Davis: True to Life," Artnews 56, no. 2, April 1957, illustrated p. 41 John Lucas, "The Fine Art Jive of Stuart Davis," Arts Magazine 31, no. 10, September 1957, p. 34, illustrated Eugene Goossen, Stuart Davis, New York, 1959, p. 23, illustrated plate 23 Brian O'Doherty, American Masters: The Voice and the Myth, New York, 1973, p. 54 Paul Richard, "The Stuart Davis Switch," Washington Post, August 19, 1982, section D, p. 7, illustrated Patricia Hills, Stuart Davis, New York, 1996, no. 72, p. 84, illustrated in color p. 85 Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, Washington, D.C., 1996, p. 50, no. 24 Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 1537, pp. 199-200, illustrated in color.

Provenance:

The Downtown Gallery, New York, by 1931 Edith Gregor Halpert, New York Edith Gregor Halpert Foundation, New York Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975 (gift from the above) Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1982.