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Lot 59

Joseph Stella
(1877-1946)
Flowering Tropical Cactus 24 3/4 x 18 1/2in (62.9 x 47cm)

29 July 2020, 16:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$20,075 inc. premium

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Joseph Stella (1877-1946)

Flowering Tropical Cactus
bears estate stamp (lower left) and again (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
24 3/4 x 18 1/2in (62.9 x 47cm)
Executed circa 1938.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Rabin & Krueger, Inc., Newark, New Jersey.
Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York.
Grete Meilman Fine Art, Ltd., New York.
Thomas Brown Wilbur.
Doris Bry.
The Doris Bry Trust.
Sale, Christie's, New York, November 19, 2015, lot 86, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joseph Stella, April 22-October 9, 1994, pp. 185, 274, no. 211, illustrated.

Literature
I.B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, p. 212, no. 393 (as Tropical Flowering Cactus).

The present work was once in the collection of Doris Bry (1920-2014), a leading authority on the works of Georgia O'Keefe (1887-1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and author of monographs on both artists.

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