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Home > Art > Still Life – Fruit

Still Life – Fruit

Artist

Andrew Dasburg

Date

c. 1912

Medium

Brush pen and ink on paper

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 12 3/8 x W- 10 1/8 in. (31.4 x 25.7 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

France

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2016.03.04

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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About the Object

In this still life drawing of a plate of fruit, four bananas are stacked atop one another on the right-hand side of the oval plate. On the left-hand side, a passion fruit sits in front of a smooth, round fruit resembling an apple.

 

Additional Information

Still lifes of flowers and fruit proliferate in Dasburg’s art of the 1910s and ’20s, including Untitled (Still Life with Artist’s Portfolio and Bowl of Fruit), c. 1914–18, and Modernist Floral, 1921,  in the Vilcek Collection. Comparing this work to Untitled (Still Life with Artist’s Portfolio and Bowl of Fruit), illustrates the evolution of Dasburg’s style in the 1910s, from a straightforward, naturalistic depiction of fruit to a Cubist-inspired interpretation.

The Artist;
Van Deren Coke, Santa Fe, NM and San Francisco, CA;
[Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2007-2016;

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 29, 140-141, 263, ill. p. 141.

Agee, William C. Modern Art in America: 1908-68. London: Phaidon, 2016, p. 77, ill. p. 77.

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