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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.)

Provenance

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.

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Exhibition of Paintings by August Vincent Tack, April 28-May 11, 1934, no. 1.
(Probably) Deerfield, Massachusetts, Deerfield Valley Arts Association, Augustus Vincent Tack, Advance View of Exhibition to be held at Wildenstein Gallery, October 25-November 2, 1936.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co, Inc. New York, The Abstractions of Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949), November 5-December 4, 1986, pp. 4, 16, no. 2, cover illustration.

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Lot Essay

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.

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