Jun 15, 2017 - Sale 2452

Sale 2452 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
JOHN MARIN
In the Ring, at the Circus.

Color pencils, color crayons and oil stick on cream wove paper, 1943. 350x275 mm; 13 3/4x10 3/4 inches. Signed in red pencil, lower right recto. With a dedication note dated January 1, 1953, and signed by Marin in ink.

Ex-collection the artist, New York; Edith Gregor Halpert, owner of The Downtown Gallery, New York, gift from the above; Nathaly Baum, Washington, D.C.; offered Christie's, New York, March 7, 2008, lot 172.

Exhibited, "Arts of the Circus," The Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, October 9-November 11, 1962; "John Marin 1870-1953," The University of Arizona, University Art Gallery, Tucson, February 9-March 10, 1963; and, "44th Collector's Show & Sale," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, November 30-December 30, 2012.