ARTHUR DOVE (1880 1946) Trees

Sale 2678 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 17,500

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ARTHUR DOVE (1880-1946)
Trees.

Watercolor on cream wove paper, circa 1934. 127x177 mm; 5x7 inches. Signed in ink, lower center.

Provenance
Princetown Gallery of Fine Art, New Jersey.
Barbara Wescott Collection, New Jersey.
ACA Galleries, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Flower Collection, Long Island.
ACA Galleries, New York (label).
Purchased from the above by private collector, New York, March 31, 1979.
Thence by descent to current owners, New York.

Exhibited
"Modern America, 1917-1944," DC Moore, New York, November 17-December 23, 2011 (label).

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Additional Details

The year 1933 marked an important turning point in Arthur Dove's personal and professional life. On January 22, 1933 Dove's mother died, and he and Helen Torr left Long Island for Geneva, New York to arrange her funeral and settle the estate. What was intended to be a short term relocation lasted for five years, as Dove and Torr had to find ways to pay his deceased mother's extensive debts and back taxes. Dove was frustrated with this isolation, but upstate New York provided him some respite. Although surrounded by the natural beauty of the Finger Lakes region, Dove did not yield in his steadfast commitment to Modernism. Instead, Dove began to paint a series of trees, which only suggest trunks and elongated branches. The present work is likely from this period, and most closely resembles his contemporaneous works including the 1934-35 oil on canvas, Sunrise, recently in the collection of Chara Schreyer, Los Angeles, and the watercolor on paper Sun Through Tree I, 1934, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession number 49.70.89).