Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Ella
Lot closes
October 21, 06:35 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Current Bid
700 USD
9 Bids
No reserve
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Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Carl Walters
1883 - 1955
Ella
ceramic sculpture and metal chair
height: 16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1927.
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The Downtown Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1941 by the present owner
Paris, Musée du Jeu du Paume, Trois Siècles d'Art aux Etas Unis, 1938, no. 223, fig. 63, p. 51
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Selections from the Museum Collection: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts, 1941
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Memorial to Juliana Force, 1949
Ogunquit, Maine, Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Carl Walters, 1956
Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery; Detroit Institute of Arts and New York, Cooper Hewitt; A Century of Ceramics in the U.S. 1878-1978, 1979-80
Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum of Art; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and Cleveland Institute of Art, Diversion of Keramos: American Clay Sculpture, 1925-1950, 1983-85
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Human Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, 1995-96
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