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Lot 6

Stuart Davis
(1892-1964)
Untitled 4 1/4 x 5 1/8in, image; 11 x 8 1/2in, sheet

24 May 2017, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$8,000 - US$12,000

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Stuart Davis (1892-1964)

Untitled
bears estate stamp (on the reverse)
ink and crayon on paper
4 1/4 x 5 1/8in, image; 11 x 8 1/2in, sheet
Executed circa 1952.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
with Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above, 2006.

Exhibited
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Stuart Davis (1892-1964): Black and White, November 6-December 28, 1985, no. 20.
New York, Babcock Galleries, GIANTS: American Modernist Masters, October 14-December 17, 2010, no. 25.

Literature
A. Boyajian and M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. two, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 338, no. 691, illustrated.

In 1952, Stuart Davis was commissioned to complete an album cover for Columbia Records as part of their Modern American Music series. The present work was likely a preliminary sketch for the cover which was published on a compilation album with the music of Charles Ives, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Douglas Moore and Walter Piston.

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