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Lot 5

Stuart Davis
(1892-1964)
Study for Flying Carpet 5 x 7in, image; 6 1/4 x 8 1/4in, sheet

24 May 2017, 10:00 EDT
New York

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Stuart Davis (1892-1964)

Study for Flying Carpet
gouache, crayon, and graphite on paper
5 x 7in, image; 6 1/4 x 8 1/4in, sheet
Executed in 1942.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
with Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above, 2006.

Exhibited
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Selections: Stuart Davis Exhibition, October 3-25, 1986, no. 5 (as Untitled).
Boston, Massachusetts, Beth Urdang Fine Art, Stuart Davis: The "Flying Carpet" and Related Studies Accompanied by Gouaches, Prints and Drawings of the '20s and '30s, April 28-June 2, 1990, no. 14.
New York, Babcock Galleries, Davis, Dove, Hartley, Marin, Sheeler, May 1-July 11, 2007, no. 20.
New York, Babcock Galleries, GIANTS: American Modernist Masters, October 14-December 17, 2010, no. 22.

Literature
A. Boyajian and M. Rutkowsky, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. two, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, p. 659, no. 1263, illustrated.

The present work is one of three gouache studies Stuart Davis executed in preparation for the final design of the rug Flying Carpet, 1942, which was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The finished wool carpet, which measures 91 x 130in, was hand woven by V'Soske, Inc., and subsequently purchased by the museum in 1943.

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