Jazz Fragment

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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.

Provenance

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.

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, The Art of Stanton Macdonald-Wright, May 3-June 18, 1967, no. 81.

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Lot Essay

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.

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