Stuart Davis 1892 - 1964

Washburn Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. George K. Conant, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1973 (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1990

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden-Baden, Germany, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Bremen, Germany, Kunsthalle; Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January-August 1976, no. 64, illustrated p. 55 (as Study for Barbershop Chord)
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, Stuart Davis: Graphic Work and Related Paintings, August-October 1986, no. 146, p. 53, illustrated
New York, Washburn Gallery, Stuart Davis: Painting and Works on Paper, November 1991
New York, Washburn Gallery, Major Paintings, Drawings and Photographs, November-December 1994

Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 415, p. 195, illustrated

The following condition report has been prepared by Julius Lowy Art Conservation: The artwork is a red conte drawing executed on paper which has been lined to a thin Japanese mulberry tissue. The drawing exhibits minor planar distortions throughout along with slight rippling at the bottom center edge as well as the lower right edge. There are also two small creases at the lower right corner and a previously mended tear at within the same area. The piece has been hinged to at all four corners to a piece of 2 ply archival rag board. The conte media layers are in good and stable condition with some slight smudging which may have occurred during execution. Ultraviolet examination reveals a normal fluorescence of the artist's materials with no presence of prior retouching. The artwork is clean and in very good condition overall.
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