Name: Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
Brand: Drawing for 'West Indian Street'
Price: 5000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
Drawing for 'West Indian Street'

pencil on paper
image, 5 x 7¼ in. (12.7 x 18.4 cm.);
sheet, 8¼ x 10½ in. (20.9 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed in 1928.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
[With]Ylise Kessler Fine Art, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1992.

A. Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, vol. II, p. 127, no. 268, illustrated; vol. III, p. 204.

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., Selected Drawings and Watercolors, March 2-April 1, 1988, no. 1 (as Street Scene with Boulangerie).

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Lot Essay

The present drawing relates to a 1940 gouache titled West Indian Street, owned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The artist noted this sketch in his calendar, "Drew 1928 Paris Street on 15 x 22 size for gouache." The "Paris Street" refers to the present sketch and "15 x 22 size for gouache" refers to West Indian Street.