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MODERN AMERICAN ART FROM THE TED SHEN COLLECTION
STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Egg Beater No. 4
Details
STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Egg Beater No. 4
signed 'Stuart Davis' (upper right)—signed again, dated and inscribed with title 'Stuart Davis March 1928' (on the reverse)
gouache on paperboard
14 x 19 ¼ in. (35.6 x 48.9 cm.)
Executed in 1928.
Egg Beater No. 4
signed 'Stuart Davis' (upper right)—signed again, dated and inscribed with title 'Stuart Davis March 1928' (on the reverse)
gouache on paperboard
14 x 19 ¼ in. (35.6 x 48.9 cm.)
Executed in 1928.
Provenance
The artist.
Downtown Gallery, New York.
Phillip Goodwin, 1946.
Downtown Gallery, New York, 1948.
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, 1989.
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Christie's, New York, 5 December 2002, lot 120, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Downtown Gallery, New York.
Phillip Goodwin, 1946.
Downtown Gallery, New York, 1948.
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, 1989.
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Christie's, New York, 5 December 2002, lot 120, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
R. Smith, "Stuart Davis, Picture-Builder," Art in America, vo. LXIV, no. 5, September-October 1976, p. 85.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Masters of American Modernism, New York, 2000, p. 37, illustrated.
A. Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 554, no. 1120, illustrated.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Masters of American Modernism, New York, 2000, p. 37, illustrated.
A. Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 554, no. 1120, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis Retrospective Exhibition: Gouaches, Watercolors, Drawings, 1912-1941, January 29-February 16, 1946, no. 15.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden-Baden, Germany, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Bremen, Germany, Bremen Kunsthalle, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January 23-March 23, 1976, no. 62.
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, January 21-March 19, 1978, pp. 16, 80-81, 103, 105, 167, no. 93, illustrated (as Eggbeater No. 1 in Tempera).
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., Stuart Davis (1892-1964): Motifs and Visions, November 2-December 27, 1988, n.p., no. 12, pl. 16, illustrated (as Study for Eggbeater No. 4).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter, November 23, 1991-February 16, 1992, p. 188, no. 75, illustrated.
New York, American Federation of Arts; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art; Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Miami, Florida, Center for the Fine Arts; Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity, December 1992-July 1994, p. 71, no. 29, illustrated.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden-Baden, Germany, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Bremen, Germany, Bremen Kunsthalle, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January 23-March 23, 1976, no. 62.
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, January 21-March 19, 1978, pp. 16, 80-81, 103, 105, 167, no. 93, illustrated (as Eggbeater No. 1 in Tempera).
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., Stuart Davis (1892-1964): Motifs and Visions, November 2-December 27, 1988, n.p., no. 12, pl. 16, illustrated (as Study for Eggbeater No. 4).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter, November 23, 1991-February 16, 1992, p. 188, no. 75, illustrated.
New York, American Federation of Arts; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art; Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College Museum of Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Miami, Florida, Center for the Fine Arts; Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity, December 1992-July 1994, p. 71, no. 29, illustrated.
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