Sale 6450
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$3,000 – $5,000
Provenance:
The Artist.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph deGolier, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, c. 1923.
Mrs. Ralph deGolier, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.
The Downtown Gallery, New York, New York, 1966.
Edith Gregor Halpert, New York, New York.
Estate of Edith Gregor Halpert.
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, sale of May 16, 1973, lot 2.
Paul Stiga, New York, New York.
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, sale of November 24, 1978, lot 97 (as The Puritans).
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Literature:
Marshall B. Davidson, ed., The American Heritage History of the Writers' America, New York, 1973, p. 363, (illustrated).
Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, New Haven, 2007, p. 524, no. 1074, (illustrated).
Lot Note:
The present work is one in a group of five stage and costume designs made by Davis for the play The Puritans, written by his friend Raph deGolier.