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FLYING CARPET by 
																	Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis

( American, 1892 - 1964 )

FLYING CARPET

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Materials:

tufted wool with cut-loop pile of wool yarn on jute canvas

Size Notes:

207 x 304.8 cm

Description:

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Markings:

signed 1942

Exhibited:

Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Permanent Collection: The Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, January - February 1983, n.p., no. 21 (present lot illustrated)

Literature:

S. B. Sherrill, Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America, New York, 1996, p. 383, pl. 409S. Day, Art Deco and Modernist Carpets, London, 2002, cat. no. 250

Provenance:

Mary and Earle Ludgin, ChicagoMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1981, gifted by the aboveSotheby's New York, 15 December 2012, lot 57 (sold to benefit the museum's acquisition fund)Acquired from the above by the present owner

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