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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY DILLON EWESON, FAR HILLS, NEW JERSEY
TIRED CLOWN
measurements
18 by 14 in.
alternate measurements
(45.7 by 35.6 cm)
signed Kuniyoshi, u.l.
casein on gesso pressed wood
Executed in 1946.
PROVENANCE
The Downtown Gallery, New York
John Hay Whitney, New York
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1960s
EXHIBITED
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Retrospective Exhibition, March-May 1948
Tokyo, Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Kuniyoshi Memorial Exhibition, March-April 1954 (traveled to Osaka and Nagoya)
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Circus Themes by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, February-March 1955
LITERATURE
"Art News of America: Rattner Wins La Tausca First Prize," ARTnews, January 1947
Lloyd Goodrich, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, New York, 1948
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