Lot 20: ¤ Alton Pickens (1917-1991) The Acrobat 49 3/4 x 34in

Alton Pickens (1917-1991)
The Acrobat signed and dated 'Pickens / 4 • 1947' (lower left)oil on canvas49 3/4 x 34inPainted in 1947.

Provenance: Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, by 1949.The Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection.Gift to the present owner from the above, 1981.Exhibited(probably) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, November 13, 1948-January 2, 1949, no. 109.Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Toronto, Contemporary Paintings from Great Britain, the United States and France, with Sculpture from the United States, November-December 1949, no. 115.Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Revolution and Tradition: An Exhibition of the Chief Movements in American Painting from 1900 to the Present, November 15, 1951-January 6, 1952, no. 72. Darmstadt, Germany, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Moderne Amerikanische Malerie, 1930-1958, June 3-26, 1960, no. 58, p. 1947.