Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960
Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960
Frede Vidar
The Ivory Tower
Lot Closed
March 5, 03:55 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Frede Vidar
1911 - 1967
The Ivory Tower
signed vidar (upper right)
oil on canvas
26 by 32 in.
66 by 81.3 cm.
Executed in 1939.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale, please contact Caroline Elson at Caroline.Elson@sothebys.com
[with] Julien Levy Gallery, New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York (acquired from the above in 1940)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1940 by the present owner
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 610
Harry Salpeter, "Vidar: The Wandering Dane," Esquire, November 1939, p. 63, illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture, July - October 1940
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Paintings by Frede Vidar, March 1940, no. 18 (titled An Ivory Tower)
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