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Home > Art > Man and Lemon

Man and Lemon

Artist

Stuart Davis

Date

c. 1922

Medium

Graphite and watercolor on paper

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 15 1/4 x W- 18 1/2 in. (38.7 x 47 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2018.01.04

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski eds. Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol 2, p. 520, ill. p. 520, cat. no. 1069.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 180-181, 264, ill. p. 181.

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