Sep 21, 2023 - Sale 2645

Sale 2645 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
STUART DAVIS
Don't Be Afraid Lady.

Brush and ink on cream wove paper, 1922. 470x615 mm; 18 1/2x24 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right recto, and inscribed in pencil upper right recto.

Provenance: Charles Allan Winter and Alice Beach Winter, Gloucester, Massachusetts; estate of the above; Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., New York, 1971; Christie's, New York, May 23, 1979, lot 259b; private collection; Phillips, Son & Neale, Inc., New York, March 7, 1984, lot 496; Shneck's Antiques, Inc., New York, 1985; Christie's, New York, March 14, 1986, sale 6094, lot 240; Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston; private collection, Houston; private collection, New York.

Published: A. Boyajian and M. Rutkoski, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2007, volume II, page 64, number 146 (illustrated).