STUART DAVIS (1892 - 1964, AMERICAN)
Configuration with Texture.
Ink and pencil on paper, c.1932. Signed, Stuart Davis, lower right. 298x407 mm; 11 3/4x16 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the artist; Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY; Waddington Galleries, London; Rosa Esman Gallery, NY; Kay Hillman, NY; Judith Rothschild, NY; Private collection.
Exhibited: Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Stuart Davis: Drawings and Prints, 1979, no. 23, described as Untitled ; National Gallery of Art, Encounters with Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collection , 1996-1998, no. 13, pp. 138-9, illustrated, continuing on to other venues.
Literature: Boyajian, Ani, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II , New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 543, p. 256, illustrated.
This composition relates to an oil on canvas titled, Composition with Red Polygon , painted in 1941.