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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Stuart Davis

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Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Stuart Davis

1892 - 1964


Anchors

signed Stuart Davis (upper left); signed, titled and dated Dec. 1930 (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

22 ½ by 32 in.

57.2 by 81.3 cm.

Executed in December 1930. 

The artist
The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired in 1931)
William Steig, New York (acquired circa 1942)
Fulton Cutting, New York
Edith Halpert, New York
Estate of the above
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 March 1973, lot 44
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York
Terry De Lapp, Los Angeles
Marion and Gustave Ring, Washington, D.C.
Estate of the above
Sotheby's New York, 3 December 1987, lot 317A
The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York
Private Collection, California (acquired in 2000)
Christie's New York, 5 December 2002, lot 207
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 22 May 2014, lot 13
Acquired from the above by the present owner
J. Lilienfield, The Artist and the Times: Readings on the Harlem Renaissance and the European Renaissance, New York, 1996, illustrated on the cover
William H. Truettner and Roger B. Stein, Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory, New Haven, 1999, no. 198, p. 176, illustrated
Ani Boyajian & Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, New Haven, 2007, no. 1550, pp. 211-12, illustrated
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: Recent Painting in Oil and Watercolor, 1931, no. 6
Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 127th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1932, no. 193
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Main Gallery: Concurrently with Willard Cummings and the 40th Annual Christmas Exhibition, 1965
Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Larry Aldrich Museum, Brandeis University: Creative Arts Awards, 1957-1966: Tenth Anniversary, 1966, no. 2
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Pioneers of American Abstraction, 1973, no. 24
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Selections from the Collection of Marion and Gustave Ring, 1985-86, no. 11, illustrated
New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries and Trenton, The New Jersey State Museum, Chairman's Choice: A Miscellany of American Paintings, 1988, no. 12, illustrated
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Stuart Davis: An American Painter, 1991-92, no. 86, illustrated
Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, American Vanguards, 1996, illustrated
Gloucester, Massachusetts, Cape Ann Historical Museum; Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum; New York, National Academy of Design, Stuart Davis in Gloucester, 1999
Winona, Minnesota, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2014-2022 (on loan)