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Lot 44

John Sloan
(1871-1951)
Nude and Spanish-Jug 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm.)

18 November 2021, 14:00 EST
New York

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John Sloan (1871-1951)

Nude and Spanish-Jug
signed '-John Sloan-' (lower left) and inscribed with title, signed again twice, and dated (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1929.

Footnotes

Provenance
Julie Villiers Lewis (née McMillan) Penrose (1870-1956), Philadelphia.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Irwin Lawton Bernstein (1904-2003) and Benvenida "Nida" Valentina (née Sonneborn) Bernstein (1919–2019), Philadelphia, acquired from the above, circa 1960.
By descent within the family to the present owners.

Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 125th Annual Exhibition, January 26-March 16, 1930, pp. 41, 113, no. 287. (as Nude and Spanish Jug)
New York, Gotham Book Mart, Artists and Writers Dinner Club Benefit, July 1934.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Oil Paintings by John Sloan, November 19-December 23, 1961, n.p., no. 34.
(possibly) Philadelphia, Provident National Bank, 1966.

Literature
New York World Telegram, July 12, 1934.
J. Sloan, Gist of Art, New York, 1939, pp. xv, 299, illustrated. (as Nude and Spanish Jug)
Recorded, John Sloan Consignment Book, John Sloan and Helen Farr Sloan Archives, Delaware Art Museum.
R. Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Newark, Deleware, 1991, vol. II, p. 322, no. 892, illustrated.

This work is recorded as JS:1121 in the artist's records.

John Sloan noted in his 1939 book, Gist of Art that "This rich, colorful picture was underpainted in oil monochrome enriched by subsequent glazings in varnish oil. Painted with speed and spirit in spite of the indirect technique." (as quoted in J. Sloan, Gist of Art, New York, 1939, p. 299)

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