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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 24, 2017 | Bonhams | New York | American Art | 20 | $****** - ****** | Still Life with Pears |
paintings
49.5 x 76.5 cm (19.5 x 30.12 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Marsden Hartley' (on the reverse)
The artist.
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York.
Dr. Meyer A. Pearlman.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, gift of the above, 1964.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above, 2006.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Palm Beach, Florida, Society of the Four Arts, Still Life and Flowers: An Exhibition from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 1973, n.p., no. 26.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Abstract Art: A Survey from the Permanent Collection, July 24-October 26, 1975.
Greenvale, New York, C.W. Post Art Gallery, Long Island University, Marsden Hartley 1877-1943, November 6-December 14, 1977, pp. 17, 32, no. 18, illustrated.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Art 1920-1945: Part II, Selections from the Permanent Collection, February 15-May 4, 1978.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tradition and Modernism in American Art: 1900-1930, September 11-November 11, 1979.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and elsewhere, Marsden Hartley, March 4, 1980-January 4, 1981, pp. 74-75, 221, fig. 74, illustrated.
Stamford, Connecticut, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Modern Still Life, April 22-June 29, 1983.
New York, Babcock Galleries, When Modern Was Modern: 1908-1929, September 17-December 21, 2007, no. 14.
New York, Babcock Galleries, A Moveable Feast: The Modern Still Life 1910-1940, May 29-August 15, 2008.
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Arlie Kuntz, Marsden Hartley and American Modernism, August 6-September 21, 2014.
New York, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, Art is Long, Life is Short: Marsden Hartley and Charles Kuntz in Aix-en-Provence, January 15-March 7, 2015.
J. Driscoll and T. Ludington, Charles Philip Kuntz, Marsden Hartley: Arising and Converging in Aix, Greenville, South Carolina, 2014, pp. 85, 99, illustrated.
Still Life with Pears
signed 'Marsden Hartley' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 24in
Painted in 1925-26.
