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Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein

Jared French

Woman and Boys (Four Figures)

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein

Jared French

1905 - 1988

Woman and Boys (Four Figures)



signed Jared French (lower left) 

tempera on Masonite mounted to stretchers by the artist

33 by 32 ⅛ in.

83.8 by 81.6 cm.

Executed circa 1940.

Lincoln Kirstein, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Estate of the above
The School of American Ballet, New York (acquired as a gift from the above)
Christie's New York, 5 June 1997, lot 94 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
J.W. Lane, "New Method and New Quality in the 1940 Whitney Annual," Art News, vol. XXXIX, no. 9, November 1940, p. 9, illustrated
Nancy Grimes, Jared French's Myths, San Francisco, 1993, no. 5, illustrated 
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, 1940-41, no. 60
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, 1946, 1946, no. 26
New York, The New York Cultural Center, N.Y. Anonymous, n.d. 
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Cadmus, French and Tooker: The Early Years, 1990
New York, Midtown Payson Galleries, The Rediscovery of Jared French, 1992