Live Auction 19998American Art
STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT (1890-1973)
Lot 76 Property of an Important Private Collector

STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT (1890-1973)

Jazz Fragment

Closed18 November 2021

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USD 32,500

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STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT (1890-1973)
Jazz Fragment
signed 'S. Wright' (lower left)—signed again, dated '1962,' inscribed with title and 'Kyoto' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
24 x 20 in. (60.9 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1962.

Rose Fried Gallery, New York.
Private collection, New York.
Estate of the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 12 April 1991, lot 93, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

After retiring from his role as a professor of iconography at the University of California, Stanton MacDonald-Wright divided his time between Los Angeles and Kyoto, Japan where the present work was likely painted.