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Property from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
Charles Rain (1911-1985)
The Magic Hand
Details
Charles Rain (1911-1985)
The Magic Hand
signed 'Rain' (lower right)--signed and dated 'C.Rain/Nov. 1949, New York' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
16 x 13¾ in. (40.8 x 35 cm.)
The Magic Hand
signed 'Rain' (lower right)--signed and dated 'C.Rain/Nov. 1949, New York' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
16 x 13¾ in. (40.8 x 35 cm.)
Provenance
Julius Fleischmann, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sotheby's Arcade, New York, September 1995, lot 437, illustrated.
Sotheby's Arcade, New York, September 1995, lot 437, illustrated.
Literature
M. Sawin and W. Jeffett, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1998, pp. 85, 150, fig. 57, illustrated
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, December 1949-February 1950.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Charles Rain, September-October 1952, no. 7.
St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1998-February 1999 (this exhibition also traveled to Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, November 1999-January 2000; Dennis, Massachusetts, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, July-September 2000)
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Charles Rain, September-October 1952, no. 7.
St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1998-February 1999 (this exhibition also traveled to Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, November 1999-January 2000; Dennis, Massachusetts, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, July-September 2000)