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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 17, 2022 | Christie's | New York | American Art | 14 | $****** - ****** | Gateside Conversation |
paintings
50.8 x 73.7 cm (20 x 29 in)
oil on gessoed masonite
signed and dated 'Benton '45' (lower right)
Private collection, Denver, Colorado.
Elizabeth Nelson Gallery, Chicago.
John Paxton, Aledo, Texas, by 1960.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1971.
Chicago, Illinois, Associated American Artists Galleries, Benton, 1946, no. 9.
Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth Collects, September 6-October 2, 1960, no. 51, illustrated.
Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Center, Recent Acquisitions of Local Collectors, February 7-March 3, 1968, no. 5.
Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Americana: A Painting Survey of the American Scene from the Collection of the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, January 29-March 14, 1976, no. 6, illustrated.
College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University, The American Vision: Paintings from the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, August 23-September 19, 1982, pp. 54-55, illustrated.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern, September 16-November 14, 1982, no. 62, illustrated.
Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; New York, The Lotus Club, The May Family Collection of American Paintings, February 7-May 1, 1988, pp. 14-15, no. 2, illustrated.
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, April 15-September 30, 1992.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, July-September 2006, on loan.
Palm Beach, Florida, Surovek Gallery, Thomas Hart Benton Exhibition, February 1-April 7, 2017.
T.H. Benton, "An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography," Kansas Quarterly, vol. I, 1969, p. 118, illustrated.
C. Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Austin, Texas, 1979.
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
Gateside Conversation
signed and dated 'Benton '45' (lower right)
oil on gessoed masonite
20 x 29 in. (50.8 x 73.7 cm.)
Painted in 1945.
