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Joseph Stella American, 1877-1946 Leda and the Swan Signed Joseph Stella on the stretcher Pencil and oil on canvas 41 7/8 x 46 7/8 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist By descent in the family Literature: Irma B. Jaffe. Joseph Stella. Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1966, illus. Irma B. Jaffe. Joseph Stella. New York: Fordham University Press, 1988, revised ed., pp. 93-94, 151 (no. 26), 197 (no. 73). Irma B. Jaffe. Joseph Stella's Symbolism. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994, no. 21, illus. Barbara Haskell. Joseph Stella. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994, pp. 134, 141, no. 168, illus. Leda and the Swan can be dated to 1922, a year Stella spent in southern Italy-- "in heavenly ecstasy, in a state of grace, painting from morning to night, living a life of complete bliss." Stylistically the work is clearly inspired by classical sculpture and painting as well as the international stylistic phenomenon of the 1920s that appears in Purism in France, in Precisionism in the United States, and in the machine aesthetic of the Bauhaus in Germany. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC