Stuart Davis 1892-1964
Study After "Landscape with Garage Lights", c. 1950-52
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 1/4 inches (30.5 x 41.3 cm)
Framed dimensions: 17 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches
Framed dimensions: 17 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches
Provenance
Estate of the artist (acquired by 1987);Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York;
The Tanenbaum Family Collection, New York (acquired from the above c. 1988);
Phillips, New York, Modern & Contemporary Art: The Morning Session, May 21, 2026, lot 236
Exhibitions
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, The Gloucester Years, February 6–March 4, 1982, p. 22 (titled as Abstraction (Theme for 'Garage Lights'); dated circa 1932)Manitowoc, Rahr-West Museum; Evanston, Terra Museum of American Art; St. Paul, Minnesota Museum of Art, Stuart Davis: The Formative Years 1910-1930,March 31–September 25, 1983, no. 32, n.p. (titled as Abstraction (Theme for Garage Lights); dated circa 1932)
New York, Grace Borgenicht, Stuart Davis: Provincetown and Gloucester: Paintings and drawings, April 1–26, 1986, no. 59 (titled as Theme for Garage Lights)
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., Stuart Davis (1892–1964): Motifs and Versions, November 2–December 27, 1988, fig. 25, no. 19, n.p. (illustrated; titled as After "Garage Lights")
Literature
Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis, New York, 1987, no. 17, p. 19 (illustrated; titled as Abstraction (theme from "Garage Lights"); dated 1932)Donald D. Keyes, "Stuart Davis: 'Snow on the Hills,'" Bulletin: Georgia Museum of Art, the University of Georgia, vol. 12, no. 2, Winter 1987, fig. 12, pp. 11, 16 (illustrated, p. 16; titled as Sketch after Garage Lights)
Ani Boyakian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Three: Catalogue Entries 1324–1749, New Haven, 2007, no. 1669, pp. 374-375 (illustrated, p. 375)