Lot Essay
Executed circa 1941.
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I'm Going Away, Far Far Into the Distance, Never to Return--Goodbye
Details
Walter W. Quirt (1902-1968)
I'm Going Away, Far Far Into the Distance, Never to Return--Goodbye
signed 'Quirt' (lower left)
oil on canvas
27 x 40 in. (68.5 x 101.8 cm.)
I'm Going Away, Far Far Into the Distance, Never to Return--Goodbye
signed 'Quirt' (lower left)
oil on canvas
27 x 40 in. (68.5 x 101.8 cm.)
Provenance
D.D.S. Myer Perlmann.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 16 June 1971, Lot 3230.
Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Collection of Penny and Elton Yasuna.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 16 June 1971, Lot 3230.
Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Collection of Penny and Elton Yasuna.
Literature
"Walter Quirt Seeks Another Way of Life", Art Digest, New York, March 1, 1942, p. 17.
Exhibited
New York, Pinacotheca Gallery, March 1942.
St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, Surrealism in America During the 1930's and 1940s; Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1998-February 1999, pp. 81, 146-147, fig. 53 (and travelling)
St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, Surrealism in America During the 1930's and 1940s; Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1998-February 1999, pp. 81, 146-147, fig. 53 (and travelling)
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