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John Graham (1886 -1961)
The Harlequin
Executed 1941
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated,
and inscribed at lower center: Graham/XXX1/NYC
Signed and inscribed on stretcher: J. Graham Harlequin
21
x 18 inches
Ex-Collection:
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York (no.:AS001) (purchased Christie's,
New York, May 8, 1990)
Private
Collection, New York
Exhibited:
New
York, Sid Deutsch Gallery, Alfred Maurer and John Graham,
March 13-April 3, 1991: no. 14
New
York, Richard York Gallery, John Graham: Renaissance and Revolution,
31 May-31 July, 2002.
Literature:
Christie's,
New York, Contemporary Art, Part II, May 8 1990, Lot 340,
illustrated
Antiques
and The Arts Weekly, New York, June 14, 2002, John Graham:
Renaissance and Revolution, p. 19, illustrated
Lisa
Bush Hankin, John Graham: Reanissance and Revolution, Richard
York Gallery, New York 2002, p.13, fig. 13, and p.22, no.13
Reference:
For
Graham's view of the Comoedia del Arte and Harlequin, see
John Graham, System and Dialects of Art, Delphic Studios,
New York, 1935, no. 119: "Comoedia del Arte is a mysteria
or a mystic play of impersonation of the enigma of creation
and the drama of the world. Hence its all-embracing significance
in all domains of art. Harlequin is no one else but Hercules,
the mighty symbol of manhood, the god ...of pessimism and
welt-shmerz, the god who after the completion of his twelve
heroic deeds fell under the spell of the beguiling nymph Omphala
and was destined to spin her loom while she toyed away with
his mighty club."
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