Lot 1: JOSEPH  STELLA

PROPERTY  FROM  THE  COLLECTION  OF  DAVID  C.  COPLEY,  LA  JOLLA,  CALIFORNIA
1880  -  1946
ABSTRACTION
signed  J  Stella  (lower  left)  and  Joseph  Stella  (lower  right)
watercolor  on  paper
10    x  7    in.
25.4  by  17.8  cm.
Executed  circa  1918

Newark, Rabin & Krueger Gallery, n.d.
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Joseph Stella, May 1958
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, January, 1960
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Abstract Art in America, 1903-1923, March, 1962
Ames, Iowa, University of Iowa, American Pioneer Artists, May, 1962
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Forty-Third Anniversary Exhibition, September, 1968

Robin & Krueger Gallery, Newark
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Property from the Estate of Edith G. Halpert, The Downtown Gallery, New York, Part II, May 6, 1973, lot 150
Private Collection, Salt Lake City
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Beverly Hills
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1992, lot 154
Acquired at the above by the present owner