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Description: AFTER-STUDY

measurements
16 by 12 in.

alternate measurements
(40.6 by 30.4 cm)

signed Stuart Davis, u.r.; also signed Stuart Davis, dated 1959, titled After-Study and inscribed Top on the reverse

oil on canvasboard

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being compiled by Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski.

PROVENANCE

The Downtown Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1959

EXHIBITED

Los Angeles, California, Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Hollywood Collects, April-May, 1970, illustrated n.p.

NOTE

After-Study relates to two works painted by Davis in 1955: Ready-to-Wear (oil on canvas, 56 1/4 by 42 inches) in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and Cliché (oil on canvas, 56 1/4 by 42 inches) in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.