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PROPERTY FROM THE DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF DR. PAUL CUSHMAN, JR.
Lot 80

John Sloan
(1871-1951)
Humoresque 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)

18 November 2021, 14:00 EST
New York

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John Sloan (1871-1951)

Humoresque
signed 'John Sloan' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1915.

Footnotes

Provenance
St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New York.
Sale, O'Reilly's Plaza Auction Galleries, Inc., April 20, 1961, lot 128, sold by the above.
M.R. Schweitzer Gallery, New York, (probably) acquired at the above sale.
Private collection.
Sale, Christie's, New York, November 30, 1995, lot 62, sold by the above.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Exhibited
New York, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's Studio, Exhibition of Paintings, Etchings, and Drawings by John Sloan, January 26-February 6, 1916, n.p., no. 1, and elsewhere.
Chicago, Illinois, Carson-Pirie-Scott, George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, John Sloan, January, 1918.

Literature
Art News, January 5, 1918.
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, Newark, Deleware, 1991, vol. 1, p. 167, no. 367, illustrated.

This work is recorded as JS:306 in the artist's records.

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