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The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Stuart Davis

Municipal

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Stuart Davis

(1892 - 1964)


Municipal

signed Stuart Davis (upper right); signed, titled, and dated 1961 (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

24 by 30 in. 61 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1961.

The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1962)

Mrs. Sherman Sexton, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1963)

Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1976)

Acquired from the above in May 1977 by the present owner

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1958-1962, 1962, no. 8

New York, The Brooklyn Museum and Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, 1978, no. 110, p. 191, illustrated

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stuart Davis, American Painter, 1991-92, p. 87; no. 166, p. 305, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery of Art, Stuart Davis’ New York, 1985, p. 24

Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis, New York, 1987, no. 30, p. 28, illustrated in color (on the cover)

Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, New Haven, 2007, no. 1729, p. 456, illustrated in color