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Home > Art > Study for Flying Carpet

Study for Flying Carpet

Artist

Stuart Davis

Date

February 1, 1942

Medium

Gouache and pencil on paper

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

image: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2023.07.07

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2010-2023;

Boston, MA. Beth Urdang Fine Art. Stuart Davis: The “Flying Carpet” and Related Studies accompanied by Gouaches, Prints, Drawings of the ’20s and ’30s. April 28-June 2, 1990 (checklist), cat. no. 13.

Boyajian, Ani and Mark Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, vol. 2, p. 660, ill. p. 660, cat. no. 1264.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 212-213,  264, ill. p. 213.

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