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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 11 | $****** - ****** | Good | CIGARETTES | ||
Dec 1, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 29 | $****** - ****** | Good | Cigarettes |
Works on Paper
24.1 x 48.3 cm (9.49 x 19.02 in)
gouache on board
signed Stuart Davis (lower right), also signed Stuart Davis and dated 1927 - 67-7 Ave/1940 - 43-7 Ave on the reverse
Louis Schapiro, Boston, Massachusetts, 1941
Downtown Gallery, New York, by 1962
Private collection, Atlantic Beach, New York, 1969
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Gerald and Kathleen Peters, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Acquired by the present owner from the above
New York, Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis and Frank Osborn, November-December 1927, no. 9
New York, Valentine (Dudensing) Gallery, Exhibition - Paintings and Water Colors: Glenn Coleman and Stuart Davis, April-May 1928, no. 19
New York, Rand School of Social Science, Third Exhibition in Connection with the Rand School, January-March 1931, no. 6
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, An International Exhibition Illustrating the Most Recent Development in Abstract Art, February-March 1931, no. 18
New York, Downtown Gallery, Summer 1960: Paintings in Aquamedia, Drawings, Sculpture by Gallery Roster, June 1960
Lisbon, Portugal, American Embassy, Art in Embassies, March 1961-July 1962
Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, September-November 1962
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts; San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Loan Exhibition from the Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, August 1963-February 1964, no. 9
Washington D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, California, The Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles, Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, 1894-1964, May-November 1965, no. 67, p. 47, illustrated p. 73
Washington D.C., United States Information Agency, Stuart Davis, 1894-1964, February-June 1966, no. 24
Edward Alden Jewell, "Davis Tames a Shrew," The New York Times, April 29, 1928, p. 18
Paul Moses, "Stuart Davis Show: Art with a Wollop," Chicago Daily News, August 21, 1965, Panaroma, illustrated p. 6
Karen Wilkin and William C. Agee, Stuart Davis (1892-1964): Black and White, New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1985,no. 13
Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, vol. II, no. 1116, p. 551, illustrated
signed Stuart Davis (lower right); also signed Stuart Davis and dated 1927 - 67-7 Ave/1940 - 43-7 Ave on the reverse
gouache on board
9 1/2 by 19 inches
(24.1 by 48.3 cm)
Painted in 1927 (and 1940).
