$6,985
Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000
Auction: June 4, 2024 AT 11:00 AM ET
Signed ‘John Sloan' bottom right, oil with tempera underpants on panel
23 ½ x 19 ½ in. (59/7 x 49.5cm)
Executed in 1932.
Collection of Amelia Elizabeth White.
ACA Galleries, New York, New York.
Collection of Dr. Milton Luria.
Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“John Sloan,” Montross Gallery, New York, New York, January 2-13, 1934, no. 16.
“Eight Paintings and Ten Etchings by John Sloan,” Art Students League, New York, New York, November, 1935.
“Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition,” Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1937, no. 140.
“John Sloan: Exhibition of Paintings,” Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1-15, 1941, no. 23.
“Major Acquisitions: Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Pastels,” ACA Galleries, New York, New York, c. 1968, no. 28.
Art News, November 9, 1935 (illustrated).
Rowland Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Part II, University of Delaware Press, Newark; and Associated University Presses, London and Toronto, 1991, p. 342, no. 953 (illustrated).
In Gist of Art, Sloan wrote: “the flesh tones with blue coverlet and a yellow wooden bed work well together. The structural activity of the figure is right well chosen."