Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Bernard Perlin
The Colosseum
Auction Closed
May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Bernard Perlin
1918 - 2014
The Colosseum
signed Bernard Perlin and dated 1954 (lower right)
tempera on Masonite
34 by 47¼ in.
86.4 by 120 cm.
Executed in 1954.
Hugh Chisholm, Jr., Big Sur, California (acquired by 1955)
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Field (acquired in 1960)
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Von Stade (acquired by descent from the above)
Estate of Frederick H. Von Stade
Private Collection
Acquired from the above in 2019 by the present owner
William L. Vance, America’s Rome, vol. 2, New Haven 1989, p. 432
Michael Schreiber, One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin, Berlin 2016, pp. 167 and 191
New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Bernard Perlin, 1955, no. 7
University of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1955, no. 102, pl. 108, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; City Art Museum of St. Louis, The New Decade—35 American Painters and Sculptors, 1955, p. 64, illustrated
Brussels, Belgium, Universal and International Exhibition, Seventeen Contemporary American Painters, 1958, no. 148