Otto Karl Knaths (1891-1971)
Property from the Collection of Dr. Mark and Irene Kauffman
Otto Karl Knaths (1891-1971)

Gentleman

Details
Otto Karl Knaths (1891-1971)
Gentleman
signed 'Karl Knaths' (lower left)--signed again, dated '1958' and inscribed with title and 'P-Town' (on the upper stretcher bar)
oil on canvas
50 x 36 in. (127 x 91.4 cm.)
Provenance
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 1959.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1959.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., gift from the above, 1966.
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1988, lot 330.
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1995.
Literature
Sid Deutsch Gallery, Late Nineteenth & Twentieth-Century American Masters, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1989, p. 23.
Sid Deutsch Gallery, Karl Knaths, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1991, n.p., back cover illustration.
Boca Raton Museum of Art, American Modernism: Paintings from the Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman Collection, exhibition catalogue, Boca Raton, Florida, 2003, p. 69, no. 28, illustrated.
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Selection 1959, February-March 1959, no. 27.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, and elsewhere, Karl Knaths: Five Decades of Painting, November 1973-May 1974, no. 35.
New York, Sid Deutsch Gallery, Late Nineteenth & Twentieth-Century American Masters, October 1989.
New York, Sid Deutsch Gallery, Karl Knaths, 1991.
Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, and elsewhere, American Modernism: Paintings from the Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman Collection, November 19, 2003-January 18, 2004.

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