
Aaron Anderson
Specialist, Head of Sale
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Provenance
Sale, Christie's, New York, May 19, 2005, lot 40.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1948 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, November 13, 1948-January 2, 1949, n.p., no. 37. (as Attention)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, December 16, 1949-February 5, 1950, n.p., no. 26.
Literature
P.H. Falk, A.A. Bien, eds., The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989, Madison, Connecticut, 1991, p. 149, nos. 37, 26. (as Attention and Mothers)
We would like to thank Dr. Betsy Fahlman, art historian and recognized scholar on the work of Guy Pène Du Bois for her kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.