Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Spring Blossoms
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May 14, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Bid
150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Stuart Davis
1892 - 1964
Spring Blossoms
signed Stuart Davis (lower right); signed Stuart Davis, titled and dated 1931 (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
22 by 36 in.
56 by 91.4 cm.
Executed in 1931.
The Downtown Gallery (acquired directly from the artist in 1931)
Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Kunstadter, Chicago (acquired on 8 February 1949)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (acquired in 1976)
Christie's, New York, 24 April 1981, lot 246A
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired in 1981)
William C. Janss, Sun Valley, Idaho
Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 1997, lot 127 (consigned by the above)
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Carol Craven Gallery, New York (acquired in 1997)
Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner
Weldon Bailey, "Exhibition of Paintings by Stuart Davis Seen in Crillon Galleries," Philadelphia Record, 13 December 1931, p. 8
Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis, New York, 1987, p. 129, pl. 127, illustrated in color
Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, New Haven, 2007, no. 1566, p. 236, illustrated in color
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: Recent Painting in Oil and Watercolor, 1931, no. 4
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Flowers: Paintings in Oil and Water Color by Contemporary American Artists, 1931, no. 6
Philadelphia, Crillon Galleries, Inc., Stuart Davis, 1931, no. 6
New York, Kuhne Galleries, 1934
New York, Brandt Gallery, Flower Paintings by Contemporary Artists, 1943
The Arts Club of Chicago, 3 Contemporary Americans: Karl Zerbe, Stuart Davis, Ralston Crawford, 1945, no. 8
Kansas City, 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, 1945
Pittsburgh, Outlines Gallery, Stuart Davis, 1946
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Lines of Different Character: American Art from 1727 to 1947, 1983, no. 76, p. 94, illustrated
San Francisco, Berggruen Gallery, American Modernism: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of William and Glenn Janss, 1996, no. 13, illustrated in color
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