Jun 15, 2017 - Sale 2452

Sale 2452 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ARTHUR B. DAVIES
Italian Landscape with Two White Bulls.

Gouache and watercolor on bluish wove paper, 1926. 242x318 mm; 9 1/2x12 1/2 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Italy" in watercolor, lower left recto.

Several similar compositions, of Italian pastoral landscapes from the mid 1920s, are in public collections, including at The Museum of Modern Art (30.1934) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (31.67.3), New York.

Davies (1862-1928) began traveling annually to Italy in the 1920s, focusing primarily on scenes of the Northern Italian countryside.