Study for 'The Double'

Details

Jared French (1905-1987)
Study for 'The Double'
signed 'Jared French' (lower right)--signed again and inscribed with title and various notations (around all four edges)
pencil on paper
15½ x 19¾ in. (39.4 x 50.2 cm.)

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Midtown Payson Galleries, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

N. Grimes, Jared French's Myths, San Francisco, California, 1993, pp. XIII-XIV, illustrated

Exhibited

New York, Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, Jared French Drawings, 1925-1950, December 1950-January 1951, no. 24
New York, Midtown Payson Galleries, The Rediscovery of Jared French, April-June 1992 (This exhibition also traveled to Amherst, Massachusetts, Mead Museum of Art, October-November 1992)
St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, Surrealism in America During the 1930's and 1940's: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1998-February 1999, no. 18, pp. 46, 115-116, illustrated (This exhibition also traveled to: Chicago, Illinois, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago; and Dennis, Massachusetts, Cape Museum of Fine Arts)

Lot Essay

RELATED WORKS:
The Double, egg tempera on board, sold Christie's, New York, 5 June 1997, lot 94 for $206,000

Executed circa 1940s.

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