Composition with Red Polygon
1932
signed lower right
12 x 16 inches (30.48cm x 40.64cm) Oil on canvas
Ex-collection
The Downtown Gallery, New York Marvin Small, New York
The New Gallery, New York
Paul Kantor Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, American & Mexican Works, May 18, 1960, lot 57. Private collection until 2017
Exhibitions:
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Stuart Davis: Recent Paintings: Oil and Watercolor, Apr. 25 – May 12, 1934, no. 4; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1945.
Literature:
Lowery Stokes Sims, Stuart Davis, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, pp. 86-87, illus. Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, eds., Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 3, New York: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 266, no. 1588, illus.