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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION
Lot 8W,▲

Stuart Davis
(1892-1964)
The Whippets 30 x 38in

18 May 2016, 14:00 EDT
New York

US$80,000 - US$120,000

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Stuart Davis (1892-1964)

The Whippets
signed and dated 'Stuart Davis 1915' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 38in

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, California.
Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 11, 1962, lot 164.
Dr. Morris W. Primoff, Palm Springs, California.
Estate of the above.
Sale, William Doyle Galleries, New York, April 1, 1987, lot 153.
Francine LeFrak, New York.
Private collection, New York, 1992.
Private collection, New York.
Jack Nicholson, Beverly Hills, California, by 1993.
Jordan-Volpe Fine Art, New York.
Langdale Price, Phoenix, Arizona, 1994.
McClees Galleries, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006.

Exhibited
Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Desert Art Collections, March 21-June 2, 1985, p. 24, illustrated.
Bronx, New York, Lehman College Art Gallery, American Modernists: The Paris Experience, November 2-December 15, 1989, no. 17.

Literature
W. Zimmer, "Lehman Makes Modernism More Vivid," The New York Times, November 19, 1989, p. 36.
A. Boyajian and M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis - A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. three, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 29-30, no. 1364, illustrated.

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