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Leonard Baskin, American 1922–2000 - Bartleby, the Scrivener, 1959; ink and watercolour on paper,...
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Leonard Baskin,
American 1922–2000 -
Bartleby, the Scrivener, 1959;
ink and watercolour on paper,...
Price Realised: £1,246
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Price realised is hammer price plus fees (31.2% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).
Lot 1049
Description
Leonard Baskin,
American 1922–2000 -
Bartleby, the Scrivener, 1959;
ink and watercolour on paper, signed and dated lower right 'Baskin 1959', 67 x 101.5 cm
Provenance:
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York (label attached to the reverse of the frame);
Pyms Gallery, London
Exhibited:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibition no.ICE-F-48-61, loan no.61.555 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame)
Note:
The Museum of Modern Art label appears to relate to Baskin's touring exhibition of 1961 which travelled to Rotterdam, Berlin and Paris.
Grace Borgenicht Gallery exhibited American artists during the 1950s including Milton Avery and Wolf Kahn. Baskin met Borgenicht in 1952 and exhibited with her for 18 years until the gallery closed.
'Bartleby, the Scrivener' is a short story by Herman Melville, first published in 1853, which questions notions of free will and authority; regular themes in Baskin's work. Baskin created a series of related prints on the theme, examples of which are now in museum collections including Cleveland Museum of Art, Philidelphia Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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