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Paul Sample

The Clown

Lot Closed

October 4, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Paul Sample

1896 - 1974

The Clown


signed Paul Starrett Sample (lower right); signed and titled (on the stretcher)

30 by 25 in.

76.2 by 63.5 cm.

Executed in 1933.

Warren M. Chamberlain, Esq. (acquired by 1948)

Audrey Chamberlain Foote, Washington, D.C. (by descent from the above)

Julia Gethmann Andrews, "Sample's 'Clown' At Exposition is Outstanding," 1935

Christina F. Larson, "America Seen Through the Work of Paul Sample," Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland 2015, figs. 4.19 and 10.5, pp. 134 and 284, illustrated

New York, Ferargil Galleries, Paul Sample, 1934

Manchester, Vermont, Annual Painting Exhibition, 1935

San Diego, California, The Palace of Fine Arts, Official Art Exhibition of the California Pacific International Exposition, 1935, no. 700

Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art, Paul Sample Retrospective Exhibition, 1948, no. 10, p. 11 (as Clown Reading)

Miami, The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Paul Sample: Ivy League Regionalist, p. 24, illustrated

Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, 1988, no. 6, p. 53, illustrated

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Austin Museum of Art, Images From the World Between: The Circus in 20th Century American Art, 2001-02, fig. 64, pp. 64 and 175, illustrated (as Clown Reading)

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