Sep 19, 2024 - Sale 2678

Sale 2678 - Lot 32

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ARTHUR B. DAVIES (1862-1928)
Italian Landscape #3.

Watercolor and pastel on cream wove paper, circa 1925. 240x308 mm; 9½x12⅛ inches. Inscribed illegibly lower left.

Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, after 1975 (label).
Private collection, New York.

Additional Details

Arthur B. Davies began traveling annually to Italy in the 1920s, focusing primarily on scenes of the Northern Italian countryside. Several similar compositions, of Italian pastoral landscapes from the mid-1920s, are in public collections, including at The Museum of Modern Art (accession number 30.1934) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession number 31.67.3), New York.