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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA
Lot 17
Leon Kroll(1884-1974)The Song 46 1/4 x 52 in. (117.5 x 132.1 cm.)
30 April 2025, 14:00 EDT
New YorkUS$15,000 - US$25,000
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Leon Kroll (1884-1974)
The Song
signed and dated 'Leon Kroll 1919.' (lower center)
oil on canvas
46 1/4 x 52 in. (117.5 x 132.1 cm.)
Painted in 1919.
signed and dated 'Leon Kroll 1919.' (lower center)
oil on canvas
46 1/4 x 52 in. (117.5 x 132.1 cm.)
Painted in 1919.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private collection, acquired from the artist, circa 1919.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Zimmerman, Long Beach, California, by 1983.
Joan D. Travis, California.
Estate of the above.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, October 6, 2021, lot 29, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, Winter Exhibition, December 13, 1919-January 11, 1920, p. 18, no. 225.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 115th Annual Exhibition, February 8-March 28, 1920, p. 23, no. 51.
The Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, Sixth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, April 20-May 1, 1920, n.p., no. 92, illustrated.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, November 4-December 12, 1920, n.p., no. 86.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Twentieth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, April 28-June 30, 1921, n.p., no. 169.
Cincinnati Museum, The Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 27-July 31, 1922, p. 11, no. 29, illustrated.
(possibly) Los Angeles, California, Weingarten Galleries, n.d.
Literature
R. Cortissoz, "Recent French and American Paintings, French Art at the Museum, Opening of the Winter Academy," New York Tribune, December 14, 1919, vol. LXXIX, no. 26,691, p. IV 13.
"Canvases That Helped Mark Art Season Big Success," The Evening State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 12, 1920, n.p.
W.H. de B. Nelson, "Pennsylvania Academy, March 1920," The International Studio, New York, March 1920, vol. LXX, no. 276, p. xxiv.
"Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists," Bulletin of The Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, May 1920, vol. 1, no. 8, p. 134.
"Bellows at Philadelphia," El Palacio, Santa Fe, May and June 1920, vol. VIII, nos. 5 and 6, p. 136.
L.M. McCauley, "The Chicago Exhibition," The American Magazine of Art, January 1921, vol. XII, no. 1, p. 21.
F. Bowers, N. Hale, eds., Leon Kroll: A Spoken Memoir, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1983, n.p., p. 136, no. 19, illustrated. (also as Song)
P.H. Falk, A.A. Bien, eds., The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Volume III, 1914-1968, Madison, Connecticut, 1989, p. 277, no. 51.
P.H. Falk, A.A. Bien, eds., The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago: 1888-1950, Madison, Connecticut, 1990, p. 528, no. 86.
P.H. Falk, A.A. Bien, eds., The Annual Exhibition Record of the National Academy of Design: 1901-1950, Madison, Connecticut, 1990, p. 311, no. 225.
P.H. Falk, ed., Record of the Carnegie Institute's International Exhibitions: 1896-1996, Madison, Connecticut, 1998, p. 188.