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Description: John Marin (1870-1953)
The Four Master
signed and dated 'Marin/21' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
16½ x 19½ in. (41.9 x 49.6 cm.)

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Provenance: The artist.
[With]An American Place, New York.
Estate of the artist.
Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Cuthbert Train, Washington, D.C., 1972.
By descent to the present owner.

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Exhibited: New York, Montross Gallery, Exhibition of Watercolors, Oil Paintings and Etchings by John Marin, January 12-February 11, 1922, no. 97.
Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Modern Art, and elsewhere, John Marin: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1947, no. 25 (as Three Master).
New York, Marlborough Gallery, John Marin, October 1972, no. 43.

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Published: S. Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, p. 493, no. 21.64, illustrated.
Marlborough Gallery, John Marin, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1972, p. 25, no. 43, illustrated.