Live Auction 21774Modern American Art
AUGUSTUS VINCENT TACK (1870-1949)
Lot 98

AUGUSTUS VINCENT TACK (1870-1949)

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Closed18 April 2024

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AUGUSTUS VINCENT TACK (1870-1949)
Tack, A.V.
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signed 'Augustus Vincent Tack' (lower right)
oil and silver leaf on canvas laid down on board
69 x 42 ¾ in. (175.3 x 108.6 cm.)

The artist.
Mrs. Henry Root Stern, New York, by 1943.
The artist.
Agnes Gordon Tack, wife of the above.
Estate of the above.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., acquired from the above, by 1959.
M. Knoedler & Co, Inc., New York, 1986.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The jagged edges of the abstract forms and the sense of an ethereal light in the present work are similar to that of a number of sumptuous oval format paintings that Tack painted primarily in the late 1920s and the early 1930s. A number of these works, such as Untitled Oval (Golden Morning) (1930) and Spring Night (1931), are in the collection of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.