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STUART DAVIS (AFTER) Pad #4.
Color screenprint, circa 1950. 363x465 mm; 14 1/2x18 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 50. Published by Esther Gentle, New York. A superb impression of this scarce print with strong colors.
Based on the same-titled oil painting by Davis (1892-1964) now in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
According to the Brooklyn Museum, "Pad #4 is one of a series of four related pictures that Stuart Davis made while working on The Mellow Pad, a painting in the Brooklyn Museum's collection. In all of these works, the word pad appears—here, sideways in green at the upper left (and a number 4 is in white at the lower right). This title reveals the artist's fondness for wordplay: pad refers both to an artist's sketchbook and to the jazz slang term for "home." A lifelong aficionado of jazz, Davis regularly drew analogies between the visual patterns of his pictures and the syncopated rhythms of this modern form of American music."
