John Marin American, 1870-1953
New York Fantasy, c. 1912
Watercolor on paper
17 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches
43.8 x 36.8 cm
43.8 x 36.8 cm
Inscribed on verso: New York / Fantasy
Provenance
The artist; toHis estate; to
Milton and Adrienne Porter, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until 2002; to
[Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, May 22, 2002, lot 80];
[Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, 2011]; to
[Joseph Goddu Fine Arts, Inc., 2011]; to
Private collection, New York, 2011 until the present
Exhibitions
Marlborough Gallery, New York, John Marin 1870-1953, 1972-1973, no. 25Kennedy Galleries, New York, John Marin’s New York, October 13-November 6, 1981, no. 13
Richard York Gallery, New York, "The Line That Lives": Drawings & Related Works by John Marin, May 16-June 27, 2003, no. 46, illus.
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino, Italy, Metropolis: La città nell’immaginario delle avanguardie 1910-1920, February 4-June 4, 2006, no. 5
Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, John Marin: The Edge of Abstraction, October 12-December 16, 2006
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany, Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of US-American Art, November 23, 2018-March 24, 2019
Literature
Sheldon Reich, John Marin 1870-1953, New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1972, pp. 13, 16 no. 25, illus. p. 17John I. H. Baur, John Marin’s New York, New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1981, no. 13
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Metropolis: La città nell’immaginario delle avanguardie 1910-1920, Torino, Italy: Musei-GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 2006, p. 126, no. 5, illus. p. 127
John Sacret Young, John Marin: The Edge of Abstraction, New York: Meredith Ward Fine Art, 2006, pp. 2, 26, illus. p. 3
William C. Agee, Modern Art in America: 1908-68, London: Phaidon Press, 2016, p. 199, illus.
Barbara Schaefer and Anita Hachmann, eds., Es War Einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US- Amerikanische Kunst, Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, in association with Weinand Verlag, 2018
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