Lot Essay
This painting will be included in Ani Boyajian's and Mark Rutkoski's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's works.
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White Walls
Details
Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
White Walls
signed 'Stuart Davis' (lower right)--signed again, dated and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
White Walls
signed 'Stuart Davis' (lower right)--signed again, dated and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
Provenance
The artist.
The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1960.
The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1960.
Literature
M.A. Guitar, "Close-up of the Artist--Stuart Davis," Famous Artists Magazine, vol. 10, no. 4, Summer 1962, p. 23, illustrated.
L.S. Sims, Stuart Davis, American Painter, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1991, pp. 83-4, fig. 66, illustrated.
M. Owen, Modernism: An American View, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1994, no. 25, illustrated.
L.S. Sims, Stuart Davis, American Painter, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1991, pp. 83-4, fig. 66, illustrated.
M. Owen, Modernism: An American View, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1994, no. 25, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, New School for Social Research, 30 Years of Art at The New School: A Retrospective Show by Art Faculty Members, March 21-April 9, 1960.
Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Six Decades of American Painting of the Twentieth Century, February 10-March 12, 1961, no. 68.
New York, Owen Gallery, Modernism: An American View, May 3-June 11, 1994, no. 25.
Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Six Decades of American Painting of the Twentieth Century, February 10-March 12, 1961, no. 68.
New York, Owen Gallery, Modernism: An American View, May 3-June 11, 1994, no. 25.
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