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PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND
Lot 4¤

Stephen Greene
(1917-1999)
Carrying the Cross 19 x 37in

22 May 2019, 16:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$22,575 inc. premium

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Stephen Greene (1917-1999)

Carrying the Cross
signed 'Greene' (lower right)
oil on canvas
19 x 37in
Painted in 1947.

Footnotes

Provenance
The Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1981.

Exhibited
Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa, School of Fine Arts, Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 1947, no. 42, p. 108.
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Sixtieth Annual American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, October 25-December 16, 1951.
Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Realism, Figurative Art, and the Chicago Viewpoint, July 20-August 25, 1991, exhibition checklist, no. 1.

Literature
E. Genauer, Best of Art, Garden City, New York, 1948, p. 114.

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