Lot Essay
The present work relates to Joseph Stella's The Bridge, one of five panels from his masterwork The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted (1920-22, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey).
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Modern American Masterworks from the Ted Shen Collection
JOSEPH STELLA (1877-1946)
The Bridge (Study for 'New York Interpreted')
Details
JOSEPH STELLA (1877-1946)
The Bridge (Study for 'New York Interpreted')
signed 'J. Stella' (lower left)—signed again 'Joseph Stella' (lower right)
watercolor and crayon on paper
13 x 9 1/2 in. (33 x 24 cm.)
Executed circa 1920.
The Bridge (Study for 'New York Interpreted')
signed 'J. Stella' (lower left)—signed again 'Joseph Stella' (lower right)
watercolor and crayon on paper
13 x 9 1/2 in. (33 x 24 cm.)
Executed circa 1920.
Provenance
Rabin & Krueger Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, by 1962.
Richard York Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.
Richard York Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.
Literature
Rabin & Krueger Gallery, Drawings of Joseph Stella from the Collection of Rabin & Krueger, Newark, New Jersey, 1962, no. 109, cover illustration.
I.B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, p. 185, fig. 67b, illustrated.
I.B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, p. 185, fig. 67b, illustrated.
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