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Property from a Private Collection, Palm Beach

Charles Sheeler

California

Session begins in

November 21, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Bid

60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Palm Beach

Charles Sheeler

1883 - 1965


California

signed Sheeler and dated 1957 (lower right); signed Charles Sheeler and dated 1957 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

26 by 26 in.

66 by 66 cm.

Executed in 1957.

The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1957)

Mr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Kahn, Dallas (acquired in 1957)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1982)

Greta Meilman Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above in 1988)

American Illustrators Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Palm Beach (acquired from the above in 1992)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, and Drawings, 1957-58, no. 166, n.p.

Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas Collects, 1959-60, no. 63, n.p., illustrated

Iowa City, University of Iowa Museum of Art, The Quest of Charles Sheeler: 83 Works Honoring His 80th Year, 1963, no. 75, p. 52

Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Texas Collects 20th Century Art, 1963, no. 45

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Private Collections, 1967

Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center, Texas Collects 20th Century American Art, 1971, no. 58, illustrated

Lillian Natalie Dochterman, "The Stylistic Development of the Work of Charles Sheeler," Doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa, 1963, no. 57.369, pp. 89, and 538, partially illustrated

Bruce Weber, American Paintings XI, New York, 2003, pp. 142-43, illustrated in color