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Study for Flying Carpet

Abstract shapes in grey and light green accented with pastel blue and orange.
Abstract shapes in grey and light green accented with pastel blue and orange.
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 Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2010.04.01

Copyright

© Estate of Stuart Davis/VAGA, New York

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Abstract shapes in grey and light green accented with pastel blue and orange.
Abstract shapes in grey and light green accented with pastel blue and orange.

The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];

Boston. 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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