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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2014 | Heritage Auctions | New York | American Art Signature Auction | 68036 | $****** - ****** | Greek Backwards (Greek Restaurant) |
Works on Paper
59.7 x 45.7 cm (23.5 x 18 in)
watercolor and pencil on paper
Signed and dated lower right: Stuart Davis 1921
The artist
Mrs. Stuart Davis, wife of the above
Collection of Earl Davis, son of the artist
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York
[With] Estate of the artist, through Earl Davis
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York
[With] Earl Davis
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Acquired by the present owner from the above, July 2007.
Whitney Studio Club, New York, 1921; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and elsewhere, "20th Century American Drawings," November 7, 1976, no. 58; Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and elsewhere, "Stuart Davis: The Formative Years 1910-1930," March-September 9, 1983, no. 15; Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, "Selections: Stuart Davis Exhibition," October 3-25, 1986, no. 1; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and elsewhere, "Stuart Davis: American Painter," November 23, 1991-February 16, 1992, no. 34; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, Japan, and elsewhere, "Stuart Davis: Retrospective," July 8-November 26, 1995, no. 39; Pierpont Morgan Library and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, "Stuart Davis: Art and Theory, 1920-1931," September 10-December 15, 2001, no. 2; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, "Modern American Painting 1907-1936: The Maria and Barry King Collection," September 8, 2013-January 5, 2014, no. 74.
Guggenheim Foundation, Amerikanische Zeichner des 20 Janhrhunderts---Drei Generationen von der Armory Show bis heute, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1976, n.p.; K. Wilkin, Stuart Davis, New York, 1987, p. 90, illustrated; L. Sims, B. Agee, et al., Stuart Davis: American Painter, exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, p. 152, no. 34 (as Greek Backwards); D. Kelder, Stuart Davis: Art and Theory, 1920-1931, exhibition catalogue, Pierpont Morgan Library and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 2002, pp. 16-17, illustrated; A. Boyajian and M. Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 304, no. 1063, illustrated; P.S. Cable, Modern American Painting 1907-1936: The Maria and Barry King Collection, exhibition catalogue, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, 2013, pp. 184-85, no. 74, illustrated.
