Contemporary Day Auction

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A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong

Alfred Leslie

#25

Session begins in

November 21, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Bid

70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong

Alfred Leslie

1927 - 2023


#25

signed, titled and dated 1959 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

72 ½ by 78 ½ in.

184.2 by 199.4 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Holland Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago

Skinner, Inc. Boston, 7 March 2003, lot 642

Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York and The Greenwich Gallery, Greenwich (acquired from the above)

Vallarino Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above)

Washburn Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in February 2005 by the present owner

Tom Armstrong, A Singular Vision, Architecture, Art, Landscape, New York, 2011, p. 210, illustrated in color, and p. 212 (text)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum Annual Exhibition, December 1959 - January 1960

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Alfred Leslie, January 1960

Rockford Art Museum, Reuniting an Era: Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s, November 2004 - January 2005, p. 55, illustrated in color