Details
Walter Murch (1907-1967)
Gear
signed 'Walter Murch' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 ½ x 15 ½ in. (57.2 x 39.3 cm.), image;
23 x 16 in. (58.4 x 40.6 cm.), overall
Painted in 1950.
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland, acquired from the above, 1977.
Sotheby's, New York, 5 March 2003, lot 79, sold by the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.
Literature
G. Levin, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Twentieth-Century American Painting, London, 1987, pp. 300-01, no. 100, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth Century Still Life, 1950.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, Hotel Dennis, Contemporary Paintings, n.d.
Rome, Italy, Musei Vaticani; Lugano, Switzerland, Villa Malpersata, Maestri Americani della Collezione Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1983-84, nos. 105, 107.
Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Denver, Colorado, The Denver Art Museum; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; New York, IBM Gallery of Arts and Sciences; San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art; Palm Beach, Florida, The Society of the Four Arts, American Masters: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, 1984-86, no. 106, illustrated.
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