Lot 119
  • 119

Stuart Davis 1892 - 1964

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Stuart Davis
  • Untitled (Figure)
  • signed Stuart Davis and dated 1921, l.r.
  • collage, pencil and watercolor on paper
  • 24 by 18 3/4 in.
  • (60.9 by 47.6 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999

Exhibited

Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Rahr-West Museum, Stuart Davis: The Formative Years, 1910-1930, 1983, pl. 16, illustrated in color as (Untitled (0.29))
Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art; Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Miami, Florida, Center for the Fine Arts; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity, December 1992-July 1994, no. 18, pp. 17, 19, 35, illustrated in color p. 60
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Collage: The Pasted Paper Revolution, June-September 1999, no. 58, p. 55, illustrated in color

Literature

Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis, New York, 1987, pl. 89, p. 90, illustrated
Lowery Stokes Sims, Stuart Davis, American Painter, New York, 1991, fig. 33, p. 48, illustrated
Barbara Zabel, "The Avant-Garde Automaton: Two Collages by Stuart Davis", Archive of American Arts Journal 32, no. 1, 1992, pp. 11-15, illustrated p. 14
Patricia Hills, Stuart Davis, New York, 1996, 148n14, p. 63, illustrated pl. 40 on p. 56