View full screen - View 1 of Lot 35. Ella.

Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Carl Walters

Ella

Lot closes

October 21, 06:35 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Current Bid

700 USD

9 Bids

No reserve

We may charge or debit your saved payment method subject to the terms set out in our Conditions of Business for Buyers.

Read more.

Lot Details

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.


Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Natalie Alford at Natalie.Alford@sothebys.com. 

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