Arnold Friedman (1879-1946)

White Pony

细节

Arnold Friedman (1879-1946)
White Pony
signed 'Arnold Friedman' lower right
oil on canvas
13 x 19in. (34.9 x 48.3cm.)

来源

Montross Gallery, New York
Mrs. Charles Liebman, New York, acquired from the above in 1928
By descent in the family to the present owner

出版

"Exhibitions in New York," ARTnews, May 12, 1928, p. 11
M. L. Berger, Aline Meyer Liebman: Pioneer Artist and Collector, privately printed, 1982, p. 60-61

展览

New York, Montross Gallery, French and American Artists, 1928
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture of Living Americans: Ninth Loan Exhibition, December 1930-January 1931, no. 38, illus.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, November 1934-January 1935, no. 79

拍品专文

A critic who reviewed this work in 1928 lamented that "It is too bad that the mediaeval custom of parading works of art through the city streets has fallen into disuse. Traffic in New York has often been blocked by parades which celebrated less important matters than Friedman's White Pony in the Montross show. Bands should play and postmen march in honor of this picture, painted by an artist who makes his living in the postal service. In the best contemporary pictures, amazingly complete in all the qualities necessary to a work of art. In spite of its delicacy of drawing and enamel-like color which at first suggest the need for a precious setting, it is essentially a work of great power no less impressive because of its restraint." (ARTnews, May 12, 1928) The reviewer adds that "the Friedman 'White Pony' and Derain's 'Still Life' set a standard to which the other pictures hardly attain..." (ARTnews, May 12, 1928, p. 11)

A copy of Aline Meyer Liebman: Pioneer Artist and Collector accompanies the lot.