LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

12.50 in. (31.75 cm.) (height) by 15.45 in. (39.25 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Stuart Davis (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, The Downtown Gallery,. Americans Abroad: Exhibition by Eight Americans Summering Abroad-Watercolors, Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs , 1929. . New York, The Downtown Gallery,. Hotels and Cafés: Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Stuart Davis , 1930, no. 1. . Valentine (Dudensing) Gallery, New York, 1930. . Philadelphia, Crillon Galleries, Inc.,. Stuart Davis , 1931, no. 18. . New York, World House Galleries,. The Struggle for New Form: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Just One Break, Inc., 1957, no. 93. . Waltham, Massachusetts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,. American Modernism: The First Wave: Paintings from 1903 to 1933 , 1963, no. 5. . Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art & Los Angeles, The Art Galleries of the University of California at Los Angeles,. Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, 1894-1964 , 1965, no. 41, illustrated in the catalogue. . New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,. Pioneers of American Abstraction , 1973, no. 23, illustrated in the catalogue. . New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,. The Development of Pop Art in America: Stuart Davis to Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein , 1974, no. 10. . New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,. Twentieth-Century European and American Masters , 1974, no. 24. . New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,. Twentieth-Century American Artists , 1975. . New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,. Paris/New York, 1910-1930s: The Influences of Paris on New York and American Artists in the Twentieth Century , 1977, no. 16. . Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum & Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,. Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory , 1978, no. 108, illustrated in the catalogue. . New York, Washburn Gallery,. American Artists Abroad 1900-1950 , 1982, illustrated in the catalogue. . Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Rahr-West Museum; Evanston, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art & St. Paul, Minnesota Museum of Art,. Stuart Davis: The Formative Years, 1910-1930 , 1983, no. 23, illustrated in the catalogue. . New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,. American Masters of the Twentieth Century , 1985, no. 18. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Stuart Davis: An American in Paris , 1987, illustrated in the catalogue New York, The Metropolitan Museum of American Art & San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter , 1991-92, no. 79, illustrated in color in the catalogue Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Stuart Davis , 1997, no. 26, illustrated in color in the catalogue New York, Whitney Museum of American Art & Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Stuart Davis: In Full Swing , 2016-17

Literature:

Elisabeth Luther Cary, 'Americans Abroad' Hold Annual Homecoming Party in. The . New York Times , October 13, 1929, p. 12 (titled. Rue Litt ). . Weldon Bailey, Exhibition of Paintings by Stuart Davis Seen in Crillon Galleries in. Philadelphia Record , December 13, 1931, p. 8. . H. Bonte, In Gallery and Studio: Stuart Davis Holding a One Man Show at the Crillon Galleries in . Philadelphia Inquirer , December 13, 1931, p. 5. . Michel-Louis Cosnil, Rétrospective au Musée d'Art Moderne: Stuart Davis in. Informations & Documents , no. 225, March 1, 1966, p. 43. . Patterson Sims,. Introduction to 20 th Century American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1978, n.p. . Patterson Sims,. Stuart Davis: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art (exhibition catalogue), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1980, illustrated p. 28. . Patterson Sims, . 20 th Century American Art: Highlights from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1981, n.p. . . Léger et l'ésprit modern: Une Alternative d'avant-garde à l'art non-objetif (1918-1931) (exhibition catalogue), Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, 1982, illustrated p. 181. . Lewis Kachur Stuart Davis and Bob Brown:. The Masses to. The Paris Bit in. Arts Magazine , vol. 57, no. 2, October 1982, illustrated in color p. 71. . Margit Weinberg-Staber, Moderne Maler Erleben die Stadt in. Du Die Kunst-zeitschrift , November 1982, illustrated in color pp. 32-33. . Patterson Sims,. Whitney Museum of American Art: Selected works from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1985, p. 93. . Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis in His Own Time in. New Criterion , vol. 6, no. 5, January 1988, pp. 54-55. . Roberta Smith, Steadfast Crusader for Modernism in. The New York Times , November 22, 1991, illustrated p. 32. . . The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity (exhibition catalogue), American Federation, New York, 1992, p. 41. . John Russell, An American Modernist, at Home and Abroad in. The New York Times , February 2, 1992, illustrated p. 33. . William Wilson,. Stuart Davis's Abstract Argot , San Francisco, 1993, illustrated p. XI & in color on the back cover. . . Stuart Davis: Retrospective 1995 (exhibition catalogue), Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga & Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museums, Tokyo, 1995, illustrated p. 139. . Patricia Hills,. Stuart Davis, New York, 1996, illustrated p. 13 & in color pl. 6. Wanda M. Corn, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935 , 1999, illustrated in color p. 348 Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000, illustrated p. 75 . Michael Fitzgerald, Picasso and American Art (exhibition catalogue), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006, p. 176

Provenance:

Alfred Auerbach, New York (acquired. circa 1933). . Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired by 1963). . Mr. & Mrs. Berry R. Peril, Rydal, Pennsylvania (acquired by 1965). . Merriewold West, Inc., Far Hills, New Jersey. . Mary Lea Johnson, New Jersey. . Andrew Crispo, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1997, lot 153). . Acquired at the above sale