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JOSEPH STELLA (American, 1877-1946) Still Life with Two Peaches, circa 1919 Silverpoint and crayon on paper 9-7/8 x 13-1/2 inches (25.1 x 34.3 cm) Signed lower right: Joseph Stella PROPERTY FROM THE KING COLLECTION, TEXAS PROVENANCE: The artist; Sergio Stella, the artist's nephew, acquired from the above; Richard York Gallery, New York; Acquired by the present owner from the above, May 1984. EXHIBITED: El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, "Modern American Painting 1907-1936: The Maria and Barry King Collection," September 8, 2013-January 5, 2014, no. 36. LITERATURE: P.S. Cable, Modern American Painting 1907-1936: The Maria and Barry King Collection, exhibition catalogue, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, 2013, pp. 97-101, no. 36, illustrated. Between the years 1918 and 1920, while Joseph Stella worked on one of his most iconic masterworks Tree of My Life (private collection), he produced many drawings, pastels and silverpoint studies for the hundreds of plants, flowers, and fruits he would include in the work. The accurate renderings of these botanical studies recall the scientific and illusionistic veracity seen in eighteenth-century folios. The sexual reference in Still Life With Two Peaches is also evident in other studies from this period.