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Stuart Davis

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