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Marvin D. Cone
(1891-1965)
Night Adventure 24 1/4 x 30 1/4in

22 May 2019, 16:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$100,075 inc. premium

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Marvin D. Cone (1891-1965)

Night Adventure
signed 'Marvin / Cone' (lower right) and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 1/4 x 30 1/4in
Painted in 1951.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, Iowa City, Iowa, gift from the above, circa 1962-63.
By descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cedar Rapids Art Association, Paintings by Marvin Cone, Sculpture by Edmund Whiting, April 5-30, 1964, no. 26.

Literature
J.S. Czestochowski, Marvin D. Cone: Art as Self Portrait, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1990, p. 233, no. 503.

This painting will be included as no. 1951.002 in Joseph S. Czestochowski's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work to be published by International Arts® at www.catrais.org. We wish to thank him for his assistance cataloguing this lot.

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