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Lot 24: JAMES GUY

Est: $15,000 USD - $20,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USMarch 03, 2010

Item Overview

Description

1909-1983 INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY signed Guy and dated ''43 , l.l.; titled, on the stretcher oil on canvas 30 by 32 in. 76.2 by 81.2 cm.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

New York, Martin Diamond Fine Arts, James Guy: Social Surrealism and Abstraction of the Thirties and Forties, September 20-October 22, 1983

Provenance

By descent from the artist to the present owner, his stepson



Notes

The piano keys and assembly-line components pictured in the current work are typical of a group of paintings Guy created while he was working at Pratt Read (formerly Comstock Cheney), a piano factory in the Ivoryton neighborhood of Essex, Connecticut during World War II.

Auction Details

American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture

by
Sotheby's
March 03, 2010, 02:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US