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Arthur Garfield Dove

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Lot Closed

March 5, 05:23 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Arthur Garfield Dove

1880 - 1946


Reaching

signed Dove (lower center)

tempera on canvas

6 by 8 in.

15.2 by 20.3 cm.

Executed in 1943.

An American Place, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1943)

Suzanne M. Mullett Smith, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above by 1944)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above by 1989)

Christie's, New York, 4 December 2008, lot 7 (consigned by the above)

Alexandre Gallery, New York, 2008

Acquired from the above by the present owner

A.L. Morgan, Arthur Dove: Life and Work with a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, New Jersey 1984, no. 43.11, pp. 299-300

Debra Bricker Balken, Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things, New York 2021, no. 1943.10, p. 305, illustrated

New York, An American Place, Arthur G. Dove: Paintings, 1942-1943, February - March 1943, no. 21

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Paintings by Arthur Dove, April - May 1947

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, December 1970 - August 1971 (on loan)