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Property from a Private Collection, Los Angeles

Thomas Hart Benton

New York, Early Twenties

Session begins in

November 21, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

420,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Los Angeles

Thomas Hart Benton

1889 - 1975


New York, Early Twenties

signed Benton and dated '20 (lower right)

oil on canvas

33 ½ by 25 ¼ in.

85.1 by 64.1 cm.

Executed in 1920.


This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by The Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonné Foundation. Committee Members: Dr. Henry Adams, Jessie Benton, Anthony Benton Gude, Andrew Thompson and Michael Owen.

Estate of the artist

Graham Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York

Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York

Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Castagnola di Lugano, Switzerland (acquired in 1975 and until at least 1991)

Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, 3 December 2002, lot 65

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Graham Gallery, Thomas Hart Benton, 1968, no. 7, illustrated

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Art Gallery, Thomas Hart Benton: A Retrospective of His Early Years, 1907–1929, 1972, no. 57

Perth, Art Gallery of South Australia; Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia; Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Wellington, New Zealand, National Art Gallery and Auckland, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, America & Europe: A Century of Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, 1979-80, no. 44

Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya City Art Museum; Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Two Hundred Years of American Paintings from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, 1991, no. 34

Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna della Citta di Lugano, Thomas Hart Benton, 1992, pp. 84-85, no. 37, illustrated in color (dated 1922-23)

Thomas Hart Benton, An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography, Lawrence, Kansas, 1969, p. 87, illustrated (titled The City (New York Scene) and dated 1923)

Matthew Baigell, Thomas Hart Benton, New York, 1973, no. 33, p. 61, illustrated in color; p. 71

Gail Levin, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Twentieth Century American Painting, London, 1987, no. 50, pp. 166-169, illustrated

Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, New York, 1989, pp. 104-05, illustrated (dated 1922-23)