STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Lot 3 Modern Icons: Property from an Important Private Collection

STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)

Final Study for Radio City Music Hall Mural

Closed18 November 2021

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STUART DAVIS (1892-1964)
Final Study for Radio City Music Hall Mural
signed 'Stuart Davis' (right center)
ink, crayon and pencil on paper
23 x 35 in. (58.4 x 88.9 cm.)
Executed in 1932.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Lawrence Rubin, New York.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above, 1971.
James Reinish & Associates, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2017.

Specialist note

The present work is one of nine studies for Stuart Davis’ 1932 Mural (Radio City Men’s Lounge Mural: Men without Women) originally conceived for Radio City Music Hall and still installed in venue, although now under the ownership of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Davis was one of four artists commissioned to create a new work for Rockefeller Center, the new “skyscraper within a city” along with Henry Billings, Louis Bouche and Henry Varnum Poor.